il popolo del blues

Settembre 2008

SPECIAL
Captan Mercier

RECENSIONI

CD
Le luci della centrale elettrica - Canzoni da spiaggia deturpata PDB choice
Quintorigo - Quintorigo play Mingus PDB choice
Ry Cooder - I, Flathead PDB choice
Saxophone Summit - Seraphix Light PDB choice
The Mojomatics - Don't pretend that you know me PDB choice
Walter Becker - Circus Money PDB choice
Allison Moorer - Mockingbird
Arthur H - L'Homme du monde
Big Mojo - Ready Made
Bobby Soul & Les Castones - 73% Phunk
David Karsten Daniels - Fear of flying
Electric President - Sleep Well
Hiromi's Sonicbloom - Beyond Standard
Ike Reilly Assasination - Sparkle in the finish / Junkie Faithful
Jefferson Pepper - American Revolution Vol. II: The White Album
Kaki King - Dreaming Of Revenge
Los Fabulocos - Los Fabulocos
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog . Intellectual Party
Motorhead – Motorizer
My Brightest diamond - A thousand shark's teeth
Niladri Kumar - Zitar & U Shrinivas - Samianitha
Renè Aubry - Play time
Stars Like Fleas - The Ken Burns Effect
Stef Burns - World, Universe, Infinity

RISTAMPE
Keef Hartley Band
Wolf + Curved Air live PDB choice
Supersister PDB choice

DVD
Mott the Hoopple - In review

LIVE
Teresa Salgueiro & Lusitânia Ensemble - Fossanova Festival 24-7-2008
The Green Man Festival 2008

Luglio 2008

INTERVISTE
Jack Bruce

RECENSIONI

CD

Buddy Guy - Skin Deep anteprima
Moriarty - Gee Whiz, This is a Lonesome Town anteprima
Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes & Sun Giant PDB choice
Michele Papadia – Afrocentradelic PDB choice
Rachel UnThank & The Winterset - the Bairns PDB choice
Terry Lee Hale - Shotgun Pillowcase PDB choice
The Red Button - She's About to Cross My Mind PDB choice
Watermelon Slim & The Workers - No Paid Holidays PDB choice
AA.VV. - Via Veneto '60 Gli Anni della Dolce Vita
Ahmad Jamal - It's Magic
Band Of Heatens – Band Of Heatens
Bodies of Water - A certain feeling
Carrie Elkin - The Jeopardy Of Circumstance
Coldplay – Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Emmylou Harris - All I intended to be
Eric Taylor - Hollywood Pocketknife
Fabrizio Poggi & Chicken Mambo - Mercy
Fergus McCormick - I Don't need You Now
Giulia and The Dizzyness - After the Alpha Decay
I See Hawks in L.A. - Hallowed Ground
Lilith and the Sinnersaints - The Black Lady and the Sinner Saints
Massimiliano Larocca - La breve estate
Miami & The Groovers - Merry Go Round
Minor Majority - Candy Store
Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark
Shane Alexander – The Sky Below
Sonny Landreth – From The Reach
The Bean Pickers Union - Potlatch
Tim O'Brien - Chameleon
Wickham Porteous - 3 AM

LIBRI
Luca Del Re - Non chiamatela guerra. Israele - Libano: una storia di confine.

LIVE
Omaggio a Nick Drake - Teatro Romano, Fiesole, 19/06/08
The British Blues Quintet – Torrita Blues Festival, 27/06/08
Rage Against The Machine - Stadio Braglia, Modena, 14/6/08
Blue Oyster Cult - Stazione Della Birra, Roma, 4/06/08
Joan Baez - Arezzo, 21/07/08
Sigur Ros - Firenze, 11/07/08
Lenny Kravitz, Pistoia, 13/07/08

DVD
AA.VV. - Crossroads

Giugno 2008

INTERVISTE
Ken Nicol
Marshall Chess
Duke Robillard
Michael McDonald
Leonardo Pavkovic, fondatore dell’etichetta MoonJune Records

THE STATE I'M IN
Ricordo di Chet Baker, di Michele Minisci

RECENSIONI
Cd
AA.VV. - Nigeria 70, Lagos Jump PDB choice
Aimee Mann - @#%&! Smilers PDB choice
Al Green - Lay It Down PDB choice
Eli Paperboy Reed & The True Lovers - Roll With You PDB choice
Elvis Costello – Momofuku PDB choice
Francesco de Gregori - Per Brevità Chiamato Artista PDB choice
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Sunday At Devil Dirt PDB choice
Jack Bruce - Can You Follow PDB choice
Jude Johnstone - Blue Light PDB choice
Kimmie Rhodes - Walls Fall Down PDB choice
Solomon Burke - Like a Fire PDB choice
Vetiver - Thing Of The Past PDB choice
Zac Brown Band - The Foundation PDB choice
Bill Toms - Spirits, Chaos, and a Troubadour Soul
Cajun Dance Party - The Colourful Life
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Eddie “The Chief” Clearwater - West Side Strut
Eric Gales - The Story Of My Life
Filip - Crane-Grief
Guy Tortora - Living on Credit
Holiday and the Adventure Pop Collective - Songs for Feeling Strong
Jason Spooner - The Flame You Follow
Jewly Hight - Darlin Understand
Jock Bartley – Blindside
John Bottomley - Songpoet
John Vester - All the Way Out West
JShogren – Jahamericana
Michael Veitch - Painted Heart
Mick Hucknall - Tribute to Bobby
Mike Mangione - Tenebrae
Mike Stocksdale- The Hill
Nathan Holscher - Even the Hills
Paul Thorn - A Long Way from Tupelo
Robert Forster - The Evangelist
Roomful Of Blues - Raisin’ A Ruckus
The Rolling Stones - Shine a Light
Stefanie Fix - Crooked Smile
The last shadow puppets - The age of understatement
Tom Feldmann & The Get-Rites - Side Show Revival
Walter Trout - The Outsider

Ristampe
Stud - Stud
Denny Gerrard - Sinister Morning
The Web - Theraphosa Blondi
Web – I Spider /Samurai – Samurai
Love Sculpture – Blues Helping/Forms and feelings
Mellow Candle – Swaddling Songs

Dvd
Daniel Lanois - Here Is What Is

Live
Cully Festival 08
Geneva Blues summit
Robert Plant e Alison Krauss (Wembley Arena, Londra)

Libri
Carlo Loffredo – Billie Holiday, che palle!

Maggio 2008

RECENSIONI
Cd
Aa.vv - Life Is A Problem PDB choice
Carlo Muratori – La padrona del giardino PDB choice
Counting Crows - Saturday nights and sunday mornings PDB choice
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Live At Twist & Shout 16.11.07 PDB choice
Joe Ely - Live Cactus! PDB choice
Pete Molinari – A virtual landslide PDB choice
The Autumn Defense – The Autumn Defense PDB choice
The Boggs – Forts PDB choice
The Soulbreaker Company - The Pink Alchemist PDB choice
Van Morrison – Keep It Simple PDB choice
Adele – 19
Allan Thomas - Making Up For Lost Time
Andre Williams – Aphrodisiac
Anne Murray - Duets, Friends & Legends
Barber & Taylor - The Reason Why
Black Keys - Attack Release
Bob Cheevers – Fiona’s World
Chris Bathgate - A Cork Tale Wake
Davide Van De Sfroos - Pica!
Diana Winter – Escapizm
Doug Kwartler - All Sides
Dulce Pontes - El corazòn tìene tres puertas
Eileen Rose - At Our Tables
Francesco Garolfi - The Blues I Feel
Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
Gabriele Mirabassi – Canto di ebano
Liam Gerner – We have come so far EP
Mafalda Arnauth - Diàrio
Massimo Bubola –Ballate di terra e d’acqua
Michale McDonald – Soul speak
Mohanski – Hotdog Chihuahua
Paul Kossoff - Back Street Crawler (Deluxe Edition)
Radar Bros - Auditorium
Ralston Bowles - Carwreck Coversations
Raya Yarbrough – Raya Yarbrough
She & Him - Volume One
The Motown Complete Singles, vol. 8, 1968
The Sleepers - Comeback Special
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
Willie Nelson - One Hell of a Ride

Ristampe
Peter Kelley

Dvd
Mahavishnu Orchestra - live at Montreux 1974 – 1984 PDB choice

Live
Marissa Nadler
Tom Verlaine e Jimmy Rip
Van Der Graaf Generator
Wombats

Libri
Bruno Casini – Banana Moon PDB choice

Aprile 2008

INTERVISTE
Clive Davis
Giorgio Gomelsky
Gene Taylor
Mark Fry

SPECIAL
WattStax

RECENSIONI
Cd
B For Bang – Across The Universe OF Languages PDB choice
Black Crowes - War Paint PDB choice
Coal Porters – Turn the water on, boy! PDB choice
Dave Boutette - The Piccolo Heart PDB choice
Eric Bibb - Get On Board PDB choice
Esperanza Spalding – Junjo PDB choice
Hayes Carll – trouble in mind PDB choice
Jesse Malin - On Your Sleeve PDB choice
Jim Ford - The Sounds of Our Time PDB choice
Nick Cave – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! PDB choice
Ken Nicol – Initial variations PDB choice
Stace England & The Salt Kings - Salt Sex Slaves PDB choice
The Felice Brothers – The Felice Brothers PDB choice
The Magnetic Fields – Distortion PDB choice
The Sadies – New Seasons PDB choice
The Whipsaws - 60 Watt Avenue PDB choice
AAVV -The Motown Complete Singles
Blue Highway - Through the Window of a Train
Chris Buhails – Kenai Dreams
Chris Walla –Field Manual
Clipper – Make My Day
David Bavas - Songs of Love, Death and Trains
Hollins And Starr - Sideways Talking
Jason Collet – Here’s the Being Here
Joan Osborne – Breakfast in Bed
Justin Currie - No, Surrender EP
Karla Bonoff – Live
Kaz Murphy - Home For Misfits
Lee Mellor - Ghost Town Heart
Lightspeed Champion – Falling off the lavender bridge
Lou Vargo - American Disaster
Nazareth - The Newz
Nisida – Vivo
Otis Taylor - Recapturing The Banjo
Owen Temple - Two Thousand Miles
Randy Casey - Late Bloomer
Rufus Party - Wilderness & Civilization
Stefano Tessadri - Passione E Veleno

Ristampe
Daughters Of Albion - Daughters Of Albion
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Suvivors

Live
Neil Young , Milano 24.02.2008
Festival Pianorama, Firenze, 10-16 marzo 2008
Mick Taylor's Italian Affair, Milano
Gene Taylor Live, Cantù, 07/03/2008
Baustelle, Firenze, 27/03/2008

Marzo 2008

INTERVISTE
Michel Delville (The Wrong Object)

SPECIAL
Chuck Norris

RECENSIONI
Cd
Alessandra Celletti – The Golden Fly / Way Out PDB choice
Beat Circus – Dreamland PDB choice
Bettye Harris – Intuition PDB choice
Chris Bathgate – Throatsleep PDB choice
Cindy Lee Berryhill – Beloved Stranger PDB choice
Elvis Costello – My aim is truePDB choice
Gary Louris – Vagabonds PDB choice
Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Vol 2 PDB choice
Jono Manson – November (2 rec.) PDB choice
Kelley Stoltz - Circular Sounds PDB choice
Marah - Angels Of Destructions! PDB choice
McCoy Tyner – Quartet PDB choice
Patrizia Scascitelli - Close Up PDB choice
Sara Cahoone - Only as the Day Is Long PDB choice
The Rumble Strips - Girls And Weather PDB choice
The Wrong Object – Stories from the shed PDB choice
Tremoloco – Dulcinea PDB choice
Willy De Ville – Pistola PDB choice
AA.VV. – Sanremo 1952
Ancient Grease - Women And Children First
Atomic Rooster - Homework
Baustelle – Amen
Billy Bragg – Mr Love & Justice
Boris Savoldelli – Insanology
Bucktown Kickback – Lost In Your Hometown
Crosby Loggins and the Light - We All Go Home
Dan Wilson - Free Life
Doug Jay & The Blue Jays - Under The Radar
Elf Power – In a cave
Erin Sax Seymour - Good Girl
Jack Johnson - Sleep through static
Jim Barile - If You Get Close You Can Hear
Jon Strider – White Wings
Keith Miles - What it was they became
Lynne Hanson - Things I Miss
Matt Costa - Unfamiliar Faces
Mavis Staples - We’ll never turn back
Mia Doi Todd – Gea
Musetta – Mice to meet you!
Our Brother The Native – Make Amends For We Are Merely Vessels
Planeta Imaginario – Biomasa
Rob Laufer - The Iron Age
Sean O’ Brien - Seeds of Mayhem
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
Sheryl Crow – Detours (2 rec.)
Space Ritual - Otherworld
Steve Evans Quartet – 2 sets
Strapps - Live At The Rainbow 1977
T.Tex Edwards & Out On Parole – Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone To Kill
The Solution – Will not be televised
The Texas Sapphires - Roadhouse Gems
Tift Merrit - Another Country
Tracy Grammer - Book of Sparrows

Live
Morning Manic Music ad Officina Giovani, Prato

Ristampe
String Cheese - String Chesse
Gillan - Live At Marquee 1978
Beck – Odelay (Deluxe Ed.)

DVD
Higelin - En Plein Bataclan
B.B.King - Live

Febbraio 2008

INTERVISTE
Mark Olson
Peter Bogdanovich
Barry Mc Cabe
Willy De Ville

SPECIALI
No Guru, No Method, No Teacher: Van Morrison, una retrospettiva critica

RECENSIONI

Cd
Chaka Kahn – Classikhan PDB choice
Eduardo Mateo - Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame PDB choice
Geoff Pearlman – Someplace Like Nowhere EP PDB choice
Joe Jackson – Rain PDB choice
Mark Fry – Shooting the moon PDB choice
Ricky Skaggs & the Whites - Salt of the Earth PDB choice
Sandy Denny – Live at the BBC PDB choice
The Gougers - A Long Day for the Weathervane PDB choice
Amy Speace - Songs for Bright Street
Bengi Jumping - Charme And Shake
Black Mountain – In The Future
Blues Travellers - Cover Yourself
Baby Dee – Safe inside the day
Delta Saxophone Quartet – Dedicated to you…but you weren't listening
Mike Cullison - Blue Collar Tired
The Cornell Hurd Band - Beyond The Purple Hills
David Grissom – Loud Music
Doug Ploss - Cowgirl Tattoo
Enter The Haggis - Soapbox Heroes
J.C. Cinel - Before My Eyes
Lisa O'Kane - It Don’t Hurt
Molecule - Interstellar
Nunzio Rotondo - The Legend
Orson – Culture Vultures
People – The misbegotten man
Ringo Starr - Liverpool 8
Silje Nes - Ames Room
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga
The Ballad Of Gaucho Gil – The Ballad Of Gaucho Gil

Ristampe
Wishbone Ash – Argus
Flower Travellin' Band – Satori

Live
Ryan Bingham – Live @ Rolling Stone, Milano 19/01/2008

Dvd
Tom Petty – Running down the dream PDB choice

Gennaio 2008

RECENSIONI

Cd
AA.VV. - I'm Not There, Original Soundtrack PDB choice
Astro Can Caravan - 21st Century Drifting Episode PDB choice
Bill Bourne - Boon Tang PDB choice
Bill Deasy - The Miles
Circle – Katapult PDB choice
Doyle Bramhall - Is It News PDB choice
E.S.T Live in Hamburg PDB choice
Flavio Giurato – Il manuale del cantautore PDB choice
Grayson Capps – Songbones PDB choice
Moses Guest - Best Laid Plans PDB choice
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights PDB choice
The Piano Room – Early Morning PDB choice
AA.VV. - Luckenbach! Compadres!
Artie Traum - Thief of Time
Barry Mc Cabe - Beyond the Tears
City Fritter - From The Ocean To The Desert
Clare Burson – Thieves
David Gogo – Vibe/Acoustic-Official Bootleg series Vol.2
Deadstring Brothers - Silver Mountain
Derek Lee Bronston - Empty River
Doc Schneider - Second Chances
Firefall Acoustic - Colorado to Liverpool: A tribute to The Beatles
Franca Valeri - La signora Valeri, Le donne alla radio di Franca Valeri
James Taylor – One man band
John Batdorf - Home Again
Johnny Irion - Ex Tempore
Jubal Lee Young - Jubal Lee Young
Kelly Dalton - The Love in Every Bar
Lee Rocker - Black Cat Bone
L'Orchestra di Piero Piccioni 1944/45 - Ritmando con la 013
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – The Assasination Of Jesse James...
Oderigi Lusi – Notes from a logbook
Remmelt, Muus & Femke - The Long Way Round
Robbin Thompson - Just A Blur In The Rearview
Ryan Adams – Everybody Knows EP
Scissormen – When The Devil Calls
Sorta - Strange and Sad but True
Southern Culture On The Skids - Countrypolitan Favorites
Stevie Tombstone – Devil’s Game
The Derailers - Under The Influence Of Buck
The Hoosiers – The Trick To Life
The Molenes - This Car is Big
The Robber Barons - Kerosene Communion
The Wombats – A Guide To Love Loss & Depression
Theo Travis – Double Talk
Valgeir Sigurdsson – Ekvilibrium
Walt Wilkins & The Mystiqueros - Diamonds In The Sun

DVD
Bob Dylan – The Other Side Of Mirror PDB choice
Dreams to Remember - The Legacy of Otis Redding PDB choice
Artisti Vari - All My Loving PDB choice

Movie
Across the Universe