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Review: Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson 'Wreck & Ruin' (Sugar Hill/Essence)
	
	

	

	
If you didn’t know who made this album and where it was recorded, chances are you’d guess it was done in Appalachia or Nashville or some other Southern locale. This is original old-time music at its finest, direct from…New South Wales, Australia! Australian singer Chambers has built a small but devoted following in the U.S. over the past dozen years and counts rootsy American artists ranging from Emmylou Harris to Buddy and Julie Miller to Lucinda Williams as avid fans. Wreck and Ruin is the second album she’s made with her husband of seven years, Shane Nicholson......























	
	









	
	
Review: Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite Get Up (Stax)
	
	

	

	
Ben Harper is a modern champion of American roots and soul, and blues harmonica legend Charlie Musselwhite is one of Harper’s heros. These two artists met at a blues festival in Australia in the mid-’90s, beginning a friendship that resulted in several one-off collaborations....


















	
	










	
	
Review: The Mavericks In Time (Valory/Big Machine)
	
	

	

	
The Mavericks' first studio album in a decade, In Time, is as euphoric as any of the alt-country group's early albums, and exhibits many of the same musical influences......















































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Culled from two performances at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in late October 1964, the legendary TAMI (Teenage Music Awards International) Show film—which was released theatrically in December ’64, been excerpted often through the years for various videos about pop music, but never released in its entirety until now—is a fascinating glimpse of the teen music scene at a pivotal moment. It features representatives from the still-new British Invasion (Rolling Stones, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas), Motown (The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles), the SoCal surf movement (Jan & Dean, The Beach Boys), a rock ’n’ roll pioneer (Chuck Berry), a top pop singer of the day (Lesley Gore), and the (still young) King of Soul (James Brown)....














































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