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BONNIE RAITT INTERVIEWED 1992: Born to make things better
At one of those flashbulb and tape-recorder after-match functions following this year’s Grammy awards, three-time recipient Bonnie Raitt was the centre of attention.
In a year which gave awards to Natalie Cole and her dead dad singing something written 30 years ago, Bonnie Raitt – just as she was two years back when she picked...
> absoluteelsewhere/1690/bonnie-raitt-interviewed-1992-born-to-make-things-better/
Eddie Turner, The Turner Diaries (Northern Blues/Southbound)
Stephen Stills -- of Crosby, Stills and Nash -- says that Turner reminds him of his old friend Jimi Hendrix, and you can certainly hear that sky-scaling Jimi-approach in any number of the blistering tracks on this powerful album.
But Turner does pull back in some material -- which still seem to seethe with menace.
This album won't be to...
> blues/846/eddie-turner-the-turner-diaries-northern-blues-southbound/
Tinariwen: Amassakoul (Wrasse/Shock): BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2006
Tinariwen were from a group of stateless wanderers who lived at the whim of weather and changing political climates in the greater Sahara, and were educated in the language of armed struggle.
In the 80s they developed their music of exile. But just as blues singers from America's south found acoustic guitars didn't cut it in the hard-edged...
> world-music/844/tinariwen-amassakoul-wrasse-shock-best-of-elsewhere-2006/
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