Articles by Chris Wodskou

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  Blue Mountain

  Tales of a Traveler

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Of the entire generation of No Depression bands, I don’t think anyone’s made a better record than Blue Mountain’s 1997 al...

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  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  A Coney Island of the Mind

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  With the trinity of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs all spirited away to the Valhalla reserved for the profanely holy, the mantle of surviv...

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  Junior Kimbrough

  Meet Me In the City

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  It’s typical of Matthew Johnson’s luck that the roster of his Fat Possum label can turn out to be more prolific dead than alive...

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  Asie Payton

  Worried

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Asie Payton, on the other hand, never did get his due, and in many ways he was a prototypical Fat Possum artist. A dirt-poor Mississippi fa...

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  Chuck Prophet

  The Hurting Business

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Along with Alejandro Escovedo (formerly of Rank and File) and Dave Alvin (of the Blasters), Chuck Prophet is an old standard-bearer of the...

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  Fuzzy Doodah

  World Without Dogs

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  The most dubious part of the beat legacy is its tumid inspiration on people far less talented than the likes of Ferlinghetti. Rich Ferguson...

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  Cuban Roots

  Cuban Roots Revisited

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 1999

  The first Cuban Roots album was released 32 years ago and immediately slipped from public view and into musical lore. The Cuban Roots of 19...

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  Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabate

  Kulanjan

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 1999

  It sounds like an experiment in cross-cultural collaboration, this dialogue between Delta blues and West African music based on the 21-stri...