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Marvin Gaye ‘What’s Going On’ Album Review

The audacious message in Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On’ isn’t the only thing that makes it such a significant and influential album.

The interaction of melody and rhythmic fire creates an irresistible pull, even though Coltrane and company scatter the melody.

Sam Phillips’ entire career was built around an ear for, and appreciation of, sounds that most other people found strange.

Dion has reinvented himself from being one of the great pop singers to being perhaps the best white blues singer alive.

Steve Earle’s divorce album ‘Terraplane’ is a tour de force, a killer record of confessional blues and sex-drenched regret.

Patty Griffin’s ‘American Kid’ is one of the leading candidates for Roots Album of the decade.