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New Alice Coltrane & Yusef Lateef From the Vault
Reviewing two essential new releases
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The Everly Brothers' Late-Sixties Reinvention
After the hits ended, Don and Phil Everly continued to make interesting music
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Balancing on the Edge: Jackie McLean in 1963
Celebrating the altoist's visionary sessions One Step Beyond and Destination... Out!
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Enter the Association
Thoughts on the great pop group's first four albums
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The Undisputed Truth and the Norman Whitfield Laboratory
Revisiting the Motown producer's work with a group of his own creation
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On the Inconvenience of Hating the Eagles
Or how I realized I don't exactly hate the Eagles
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The Grant Green-Sonny Clark Connection
In a little over four months, the guitarist and pianist recorded together five times. All but one song sat in the Blue Note vault for a generation.
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The Mason Williams Substack Essay
On the iridescent irreverence of Mason Williams, the Smothers Brothers and the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
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