List: Rock/Blues/Pop/Misc. Music Reviews | Curated by Allen Michie

Jan 2, 2025
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Rock/Blues/Pop/Misc. Music Reviews
Allen Michie
An Appreciation of Isaac Hayes: “Shaft”: Music from the SoundtrackThe carelessly easy soulfulness of this album shouldn’t distract you from the genius of its compositions and arrangements. Hayes’…
Jun 20, 2023
Jun 20, 2023
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Review of Marc Jordan’s “Waiting for the Sun to Rise”Waiting for the Sun to Rise — Marc Jordan (Linus)
Aug 6, 2023
Aug 6, 2023
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Review of Sonica, “Sonica,” Thana Alexa, “Ona,” and Nicole Zuraitis, “Wandering Hearts”Sonica — Sonica (Outside In Music); ONA — Thana Alexa (self-produced); Wandering Hearts — Nicole Zuraitis (Dot Time)
Jul 24, 2023
Jul 24, 2023
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Review of Keb Mo’s “Good to Be…”Good to Be… Keb’ Mo’ (Rounder)
Jul 24, 2023
Jul 24, 2023
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Review of Youn Sun Nah’s “Waking World”Thankfully, not all popular music coming out of South Korea is from boy bands. Youn Sun Nah began as a young prodigy when her first album…
Jul 24, 2023
Jul 24, 2023
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Review of the Temptations, “Temptations 60”Ted Gioia recently made waves with an article detailing how old music is killing off new music. Record labels and radio stations are…
Jul 22, 2023
Jul 22, 2023
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Appreciation of Cat Stevens, “Teaser and the Firecat”Cat Stevens (a.k.a. Yusuf Islam, then just Yusuf, and now using both Yusuf and Cat Stevens) has never quite gotten his due. He could have…
Jul 22, 2023
Jul 22, 2023
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Review of Jake Shimabukuro’s “Jake & Friends”I’ll confess to a guilty pleasure: cheesy all-star duet albums. Usually, the deserved reaction at the end of the record is “Why?” But, on…
Jul 22, 2023
Jul 22, 2023
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Review of “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” (Episodes 5–8)Throughout 2021, “The 1971 Project” at The Arts Fuse has been celebrating the extraordinary music of 50 years ago. We are not the only…
Jul 22, 2023
Jul 22, 2023
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Review of “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” (Episodes 1–4)1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything: Episodes 1–4. Apple TV.
Jul 22, 2023
Jul 22, 2023
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Review of Valerie June’s “The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers”Sometimes, rarely, a record will simultaneously catch you off-guard, disturb tidy genre categorizations, and immediately captivate. Such is…
Jul 11, 2023
Jul 11, 2023
Allen Michie
Appreciation of The Temptations, “Just My Imagination”The Temptations, “Just My Imagination” (Tamla Motown)
May 17, 2023
May 17, 2023
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Arts Remembrance: The Three Funkiest Handclaps in Music History — An Appreciation of Bill WithersBill Withers died today at age 81. It’s a sad statement on our times that it comes as a relief that he died from something other than…
Apr 30, 2023
Apr 30, 2023
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Review of Youn Sun Nah’s “Waking World”Youn Sun Nah’s style is difficult to summarize. Part jazz chanteuse, part indie rocker, part arthouse iconoclast, and part cabaret stage…
Jan 16, 2023
Jan 16, 2023
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Album Review: Keb’ Mo’s “Good to Be…” — Too Contentedhttps://artsfuse.org/257147/album-review-keb-mos-good-to-be-too-contented/
Jan 16, 2023
Jan 16, 2023