Robert Baird

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Robert Baird
Up On The Roof
Robert Baird  |  Jun 26, 2015  |  4 comments
Perhaps the greatest strength left in the music business these days, and the major labels in particular, is their catalogs of recordings and on the reissue side of the business, no one has been better at exploiting a catalog and actually creating new releases of older unreleased music than Sony Legacy.
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Rip It Up
Robert Baird  |  Jun 19, 2015  |  1 comments
His screams, rapid fire delivery, and end-of-line trills in tracks like “Lucille,” “Jenny Jenny” and of course, “Tutti Frutti,” every one recorded with an overloaded microphone, are impassioned in the extreme.
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Palisades
Robert Baird  |  Jun 19, 2015  |  4 comments
Being a Scene means that people will come no matter who or what is onstage, just to be a part of the…Scene.
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Blood and Freedom
Robert Baird  |  Jun 12, 2015  |  1 comments
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Soul Men
Robert Baird  |  May 29, 2015  |  0 comments
Perhaps the best attribute that older soul cats bring to a project like this is their knowledge of repertoire.
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Bruce Lundvall
Robert Baird  |  May 22, 2015  |  1 comments
A fan of music and those who make it, he was one of the last labels heads to actually listen to music and care about musicians.
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The Thrill Has Gone
Robert Baird  |  May 15, 2015  |  6 comments
His long, single note leads gave new meaning to the word “stinging,”
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SoulPsychJamRocktastic
Robert Baird  |  May 09, 2015  |  0 comments
What keeps Waterfall, the band’s seventh album and the first in four years, from sinking into a kind of earnest, overly precious, 1970s lite rock muck is that James’s many influences are a mist and not a downpour.
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Singer/Songwriters: The Formative Years
Robert Baird  |  May 01, 2015  |  5 comments
While the mass ogling was in full swing and the sickly sweet aroma of jittery, prepubescent testosterone hung heavy in the classroom, I was equally interested in Miss Wagner’s musical selections.
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Bow to the Temples of Syrinx
Robert Baird  |  May 01, 2015  |  12 comments
Deep into what Geddy Lee now calls their “kimono period,” the band wrote and recorded, 2112, ("Twenty One Twelve") a record that makes them incredibly pretentious dorks or prog rock gods (in kimonos).
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Love Wants To Dance
Robert Baird  |  Apr 24, 2015  |  1 comments
After Breezin’ Benson’s well-known fondness for James Brown funk broke out into the open
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Record Store Day 2015
Robert Baird  |  Apr 20, 2015  |  1 comments
Vinyl Rage! Prospect Expressway Jammed With Overamped Record Buyers Eager For Adam & The Ants, Gwar and Jethro Tull!!! It’s Record Store Day In Brooklyn!!!
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Coltrane 1961
Robert Baird  |  Apr 17, 2015  |  3 comments
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Savannah Music Festival 2015
Robert Baird  |  Apr 10, 2015  |  1 comments
After my Austin sojourn this year, I paid a visit to the more staid and adult universe of the Savannah Music Festival.
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Grrls!
Robert Baird  |  Mar 23, 2015  |  1 comments
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