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Fuse Music Feature: At 76, Singer Mavis Staples Continues to be an Antidote to Despair

Mavis Staples’ voice and stage presence still exude power, still plumb emotional and spiritual depths.

Bob Dylan had been soundly booed for playing a set plugged. What ninnies dictate the rules in the backwater world of American folk music!

Miles Davis at Newport, 1955-1975 has its drawbacks, but I wouldn’t want to be without this four-disc collection

Ollie Hallowell April 9, 2020 at 4:04 pm on Music Review: Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul”Ollie Hallowell says: What an intelligently written review of Bob Dylan’s most recent enigma, typical of the writing in Bill...
Al G April 9, 2020 at 3:21 pm on WATCH CLOSELY: PBS’ “Jamestown” — Glossy Heritage TVThis show is wildly inaccurate. Everything from a misrepresentation of women in the period, all for the sake propping up...
Eric Bourgeois April 9, 2020 at 12:06 pm on Music Review: Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul”Very well presented piece Matt. Thank you. I've googled your name and will read your other works.
Jeff Spurr April 8, 2020 at 6:23 pm on Music Review: Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul”I have yet to hear this song. Regarding JFK's horrible assassination (I was 14 and remember it as yesterday), he...
Allen Michie April 8, 2020 at 6:00 pm on Arts Remembrance: The Three Funkiest Handclaps in Music History — An Appreciation of Bill WithersAgreed, there’s some kind of Brazilian sound to the syncopated hand claps. Withers sounds great on Grover Washington “Just the...