Robert Baird

Matt Boynton and Vacation Island
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Aug 04, 2014  |  0 comments
Call it the Robert Louis Stevenson Syndrome . . .
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Get On Up
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Aug 02, 2014  |  3 comments
It’s clearly time for a complete rethink of the musical biopic format.
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Hot Bach
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Jul 25, 2014  |  0 comments
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Recording of August 2014: Turn Blue
Recording of the Month
Robert Baird  |  Jul 21, 2014  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2014  |  0 comments
The Black Keys: Turn Blue
Nonesuch 7559795555 (LP/CD/HDtracks download). 2014. Black Keys, Danger Mouse, prods.; Kennie Takahashi, eng.; Collin Dupuis, Geoff Neal, Bill Skibbe, asst. engs.; Tchad Blake, mix. TT: 45:09
Performance ****
Sonics ****

There was a time when calling the Black Keys "sexy" would have been thought perversely stunted, given that they were a two-man, raw-as-hell, blow-me-down, frat-rock grinder that jammed and pounded and convinced everyone that their version of Tony Joe White's groove was something new and revolutionary.

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Johnny Winter
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Jul 18, 2014  |  3 comments
"I made my first record when I was 15, started playing clubs when I was 15. Started drinking and smoking when I was 15. Sex when I was 15. Fifteen was a big year for me,"
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Before Elvis
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Jul 17, 2014  |  4 comments
“Until now, rock ‘n’ roll has largely been viewed as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution provoked by the bland pop that preceded it and created through the white appropriation of music that had previously been played only by and for blacks,”
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Bobby Womack
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Jun 29, 2014  |  6 comments
Bobby Womack who died on Friday at the age of 70, will go down as one of the finest, if undervalued soul singers of his or any other generation.
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Led Zeppelin Remastered
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Jun 28, 2014  |  10 comments
Dood!! Stairway To Heaven!!!

Your first sip of beer beer. Your first drag on a cigarette. Maybe even that first kiss. Led Zeppelin was the soundtrack for the Seventies and now, you may want to file those cherished but worn LP copies and replace them with the much ballyhooed reissues from Rhino.

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Recording of July 2014: Texas Hurricane
Recording of the Month
Robert Baird  |  Jun 23, 2014  |  First Published: Jul 01, 2014  |  8 comments
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Texas Hurricane
Epic/Legacy/Analogue Productions AAPB SRV33-BOX (6 LPs, 331?3rpm). 1983–1991/2014. John Hammond Sr., orig. exec. prod.; Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Hammond Jr., Richard Mullen, others, orig. prods.; Richard Mullen, James Geddes, Lincoln Clapp, others, orig. engs.; Chad Kassem, reissue exec. prod.; Ryan Smith, remastering. AAA. TT: 3:55:20
Performance *****
Sonics *****

He was the shining star the blues world had always dreamed of: the rare performer who could break through to the musical mainstream. Yet alas, he flashed across the musical heavens and was gone far too soon, dying in a helicopter crash in August 1990, at the age of 35. That Stevie Ray Vaughan's reign as blues-guitar hero was brief but incendiary is driven home yet again by this spectacular new boxed set from Epic/Legacy and Chad Kassem's Analogue Productions label.

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Miranda Lambert
Robert Baird
Robert Baird  |  Jun 20, 2014  |  3 comments
Yet there are country stars today that know and respect the history and yes…actually have taste.
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