CD Reviews: The Boot Box July 2004

Toots and the Maytals: True Love, V2 Records, 2004

www.tootsandthemaytals.net

Rating: B

True Love is partly Tribute to Toots album, partly Toots Duets With album, partly Toots Greatest Hits album, partly an experimental reggae reinvention of great songs.  Read more... (2827 words + 6 images)

CD Reviews: Editor’s Picks July 2004

7/21/04

Truth be told, I get a lot of CDs that funnel in and out of my office. Some I eagerly anticipate–like, I’m still waiting for the Ghetto Youths to release an album (And yes, at this point I am not holding my breath!) Some CDs get passed along to more worthy reviewers, who happen to be oldies aficionados, dub heads, world fusion enthusiasts or electronic experimenters. And yes, some CDs just sit there in a tub as I look at them from the corner of my eye, wondering if I have the time to listen to the home-produced CDs that are accompanied with all the optimism in the world, and a quick Polaroid head shot.  Read more... (2088 words + 5 images)

Forever Milking Bob, Continued

FOREVER MILKING BOB, CONTINUED

A review essay by Gregory Stephens

Rita 

Marley with Hettie Jones, No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley

(Hyperion, May 2004)

Hank 

Bordowitz, ed., Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley

Reader (Da Capo Press/ Perseus, July 2004)

Reading these latest additions  Read more... (3551 words + 2 images)