Articles by Brent Hagerman

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  Livin' Soul

  Sweet Lane

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

  Thank Jah for reggae music because without it Parisian cafés might sink into the Seine in a Celine Dion-induced foie gras haze. For some re...

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  Lee Scratch Perry and the Whitebellyrats

  Panic in Babylon

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

  Lee Perry is at his maniacal best within the creative whirlwind of collaboration. Having another artist, or artists, to reign in his wildly...

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  Mark Knopfler

  Shangri-La

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  To admit you like an ’80s guitar icon Mark Knopfler solo record is to hint at your greying hairs and maybe your mellowing musical tastes, e...

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  Shortstack

  Shortstack

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  In the early 2000s, Allentown’s Adrian Carroll came under the spell of guitar pickin’ legend Merle Travis. Carroll’s band, Shortstack, bene...

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  The Slackers

  International War Criminal

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  Desperate times produce protest singers out of unlikely places. The Slackers may be more known for their melancholy and hip NY old school s...

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  Steel Pulse

  African Holocaust

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  David Hines must be sharing the same oxygen tent as Loretta Lynn, because over 25 years after Steel Pulse's inception in Birmingham, the le...

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  Various

  Is it Rolling Bob?: A Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan Vol.1

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  It's a bad sign when the best track on a tribute album is performed by the subject of the tribute. Is it Rolling Bob? never really stood a...

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  Stompin' Tom Connors

  And the Hockey Mom Tribute

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  For a man who has made some of the coolest music Canada has ever produced, you've got to wonder what is going on with Stompin' Tom. Obvious...