Robbie Fulks was born in Pennsylvania in 1963 but regards North Carolina as his childhood home. Family members variously played the fiddle, autoharp, banjo, and guitar, and Fulks picked up on the latter two of these from an early age. A couple of years studying at Columbia University in New York brought the chance to follow the well-trodden path to the cafés of Greenwich Village, home of so many folk artists in the 1960s. Tipping his hat to the most celebrated of these, Fulks once released an album reinterpreting the songs from Bob Dylan’s “Street Legal”.
Far from being a follower of trends, however, this is an unconventional artist who sets out to challenge and surprise his audience. He featured several Michael Jackson hits on his 2010…
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While visiting a Pasadena, CA art museum a few years ago, 
If we have learned anything about blues/rock guitar icon Walter Trout from his extensive near 50-year stint in the genre’s trenches, it’s that he never does anything halfway. From early supporting work with Big Mama Thornton, Joe Tex and John Lee Hooker, to extended stints in Canned Heat and as a longtime Bluesbreaker under John Mayall’s tutelage, he has learned from some of the field’s best and most resilient veterans.
Although they haven’t had a hit single in almost 20 years, Faithless remain a potent commercial force, continuing to rack up festival headline sets and big-selling albums. Longterm member Maxi Jazz left the band in 2016 but Champion Sound is the first album by remaining duo Rollo and Sister Bliss since his death in 2022.
Five years after bidding a too-early farewell to one of pop’s most stalwart songwriters, a new album from his second-best remembered (but first major) band is coming, built off contributions he left behind. Traces of You is the first new album in a dozen years from alternative pop band 
From El Boraro, the vampiric demon on 2018’s 
There’s not enough time to break down the cognitive dissonance of younger audiences discovering 
While 
The idea of an artist emerging fully formed from the jump is nothing new, but North African jazz artist 
According to Nick Finzer, the trombonist never set out to make a big band album but over time realized that the pieces he’d developed lent themselves to the jazz orchestra format.
For as long as it has existed, it seems as if the piano has been subject to opinions and experiments of various types. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the player piano was a popular self-playing piano with a mechanism that operated the piano action using perforated paper or metallic rolls to play popular tunes.
“Anyone can be an artist,” croaks the voice of an old woman whose English accent sounds like it’s been ground down by time. She goes on to recount the simplicity of art; you draw something, and someone else likes it and they buy it. Woven into this discussion is another, with a sound quality that suggests it was taken from a pre-digital age film, in which a man’s voice ponders suicide. The first voice is 
As he played the local bars and clubs, 
…While country music is reaching new heights commercially, the age-old debate about real country music is as heated as ever. (See: mudslinger Gavin Adcock’s recent beef with outlaw torchbearer Charley Crockett.)
Now domiciled in Lyon, France, this young Venezuelan singer, percussionist and member of the Réunionese-Venezuelan quartet, Parranda La Cruz, has delivered a first solo album brimming with confidence and panache.
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