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Lynyrd Skynyrd's 10 Best Songs

Lynyrd Skynyrd didn’t invent Southern rock, but they were responsible for the rebellious, renegade style that most would associate with the genre. Confident players and down-to-earth people, Lynyrd Skynyrd was a dangerous band and one of the best groups that ever…
8.5
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Our Escape and Múnro Reviewed

Our Escape – Thoughts and Prey War is the most abhorrent thing that humans have ever invented. And, boy, didn’t we work hard to perfect our atrocities? We’re so used to it that you’ll find people saying that it’s inevitable. And, once every few years…
8.0
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Magana and Juno Dunes Reviewed

Magana – I’m Not Doing Anything The modern music documentary has been a plight of several generations of would-be musicians and artists who have grown up enjoying them. We should all be familiar with the Behind the Music format that all docs now use. Act I…
7.5
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Crossing i’s Dotting t’s and Eric Sleeper Reviewed

Crossing i’s Dotting t’s – You, in everything Bob Dylan said that you can’t be wise and in love at the same time. Think about that the next time that you’re made to study a romantic poet in school or when a movie about their life gets made.  The artists…
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Jemmy Joe - "Song And Dance Man" Review

Listen, anybody who has attended a Bob Dylan concert or picked up one of the live discs without checking the liner notes, and claims to know what song the great man was singing is lying. It doesn’t matter if it was “Like a Rolling Stone” in the key in which it was…
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the rising sing - “whatever is real” Review

Artists, as well as fans like to complain about the music business not being fair. Well, what in the world is? But despite their sustained and best efforts, it’s not the record execs, the producers, or the marketing teams who have made themselves indispensable.  Lying…
7.8
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Matt Maltese and Rose Hotel Reviewed

Matt Maltese – Anytime, Anyplace, Anyhow You gotta force people to hunch in to listen real closely if you truly want them to hang on to your every word. You gotta say little and make every sentence count. And to do all of that, you may counter popular belief and…
8.0
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Ron Marsh and Dark Archer Reviewed

Ron Marsh – FEELING ALIVE I’ve heard of people who live in Los Angeles or London and occasionally bump into their favourite rock stars on the street. I’ve even heard reports from people who swear that they see Michael Monroe in their Helsinki supermarket nearly…