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Another Beauty
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  May 11, 2010  |  0 comments
Sometimes wandering the streets of New York I hear whining about how “far from nature’ someone is; or how there’s too much concrete; or how the exhaust–filled air is hurting their lungs. Well, boo hoo. If it’s purple mountains majesties you seek, NYC ain’t the place. You come here for the human culture not the natural beauty—although now that I think of it, there are other, very compelling forms of natural beauty in NYC, if you catch my drift, wink, wink, nod, nod, say no more, but I digress.
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Anthony Wilson's Frogtown
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Apr 11, 2016  |  3 comments
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April 2023 Rock/Pop Record Reviews
Music and Recording Reviews
Robert Baird, Phil Brett, Anne E. Johnson  |  Apr 06, 2023  |  0 comments
Weyes Blood: And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow; Gina Birch: I Play My Bass Loud; Rick Rosato: Homage.
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Arc Iris's Moon Saloon: Super Proggy
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Feb 20, 2017  |  0 comments
On Moon Saloon, Rhode Island's Arc Iris, led by singer Jocie Adams, has discarded any traces of the Americana that was present on the band’s self-titled debut. The sheer amount of textures present on Moon Saloon is wonderful, an attribute abetted by an atmospheric digital recording and a decent LP pressing.
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Artful Dodger
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Jul 21, 2017  |  2 comments
Better left in the cut-out bins? Rock from the era of one-album wonders.
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Arthur Alexander, Lonely Just Like Me
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Jul 15, 2017  |  2 comments
One of my favorite South by Southwest moments over the 28 years I have attended was the early-1990s performance of Arthur Alexander who was literally sobbing before his set was done. In 1993, after many years out of the music game, Alexander, with the help of a lot of talented friends, made Lonely Just Like Me for Elektra Records, a swansong he never thought possible. Convinced he'd been forgotten, his triumphant performance in Austin just after the record was released, in front of a wildly enthusiastic crowd, moved him to tears. A few weeks later he was gone.
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As soon as I walked in the door...
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Nov 16, 2009  |  0 comments
I saw this prominently displayed...
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Atlantic Icon
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Dec 15, 2006  |  0 comments
I was very sad to learn of the death of Ahmet Ertegun, one of the three visionaries behind Atlantic Records. Having met him several times, it makes perverse sense that he would have met his end due to complications from a fall at a Rolling Stones concert. He was a man of music to the end.
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Attention Screen
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Apr 28, 2010  |  0 comments
On Saturday night, in New York City, upstairs in Manhattan’s 54th Street Yamaha piano studios, which by the way is very close to that other keyboard shrine, Steinway Hall, Stereophile’s own contributing editor Bob Reina and his group, Attention Screen recorded their third live album for Stereophile Records, a label owned and run by editor in chief/sound engineer John Atkinson, our fearless leader. Just so there is no confusion, I mean that last term as an endearing salute rather than in the sense of Rocky & Bullwinkle’s Germanesque dictator of Pottsylvania.
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August 2023 Jazz Record Reviews
Music and Recording Reviews
Robert Baird, Thomas Conrad, Andrey Henkin  |  Aug 10, 2023  |  5 comments
Eva Cassidy: I Can Only Be Me; Dave Liebman: Live at Smalls; Ralph Towner: At First Light; Chet Baker: Blue Room; Various Artists: The Jazz Room, Vol.2.
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