YACHTS SET SAIL AGAIN WITH NEW BOX SET
It was a fluke that the British new wave band Yachts developed their signature “garage-y pop sound,” as described by head Yachtsman Henry Priestman. And it was just by chance that the band got signed in the first place. Yachts’…
A SOLOMON BURKE SCORE
It had been a while since I had visited a record store. Part of the reason is that there just isn’t aren’t as many stores around to pop into. And for whatever reasons, I just never made it to one…
BETTYE LAVETTE SINGS BOB DYLAN’S SONGS
On Bettye LaVette’s new album, Things Have Changed, she sings 12 Bob Dylan songs. But don’t even think about calling it a covers album. “A cover is when you listen to the song, you put it in your key, and…