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Music Review: Jason Isbell, Laid-Back — More Country Than Country-Rock

Jason Isbell has got sober, and his songs ring with the urgency of the newly recovered (and newly remarried, to his violinist Amanda Shires).

Dan Festa July 1, 2020 at 12:57 pm on Jazz Album Review: The Ultimate Peggy Lee — A Woman in ControlI was 11 years old when I first heard "Why Don't You Do Right." I fell in love with Miss...
Chuck Taylor June 30, 2020 at 3:54 pm on Music Interview: Jim Kweskin and Geoff MuldaurI googled jim kweskin earlier today on a whim and was glad to see he’s still going strong. He taught...
Michael Wolfe June 29, 2020 at 3:05 pm on Poetry and Prose Review: Joseph Brodsky — Revisiting an IconVery informative and smart. Thanks for this survey of an important Russian poet in translation. For those of us who...
Allen Michie June 29, 2020 at 12:08 pm on Book Reconsideration: “A Confederacy of Dunces” — Still an American Comic Masterpiece?I re-read COD about a year ago, and I was a bit less amused. I suppose there's nothing like the...
Nora June 29, 2020 at 12:04 am on Television Review: “Beecham House” — A Steamy Passage to IndiaThis review is on target except for a couple of items. First, John Beecham makes quite a few bad decisions...