Get Together: Banana Recalls Youngbloods Classics
Grandpa Raccoon
Even serious Youngbloods fans may have had a hard time keeping up with Lowell Levinger (the artist almost formerly known as Banana) since that group disbanded 42 years ago.
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Arlen Roth
Slide Guitar Summit
Aquinnah
Throughout the past half-century of recorded music, the idea of “more is better” has been explored. A few examples:
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Bill Frisell
Guitar in the Space Age!
OKeh
In a modernization of the electric-guitar/steel-guitar format pioneered by Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant in the ’50s, Bill Frisell — aided by Greg Leisz on pedal steel, lap steel and slide guitar — puts a laidback spin on an instrumental collection of early ’60s guitar music that inspired him as a kid.
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Los Straitjackets
Deke Dickerson Sings the Great Instrumental Hits!!!!!!
Yep Roc
It’s like amplifying the experience of hearing Lorne Greene sing the theme to “Bonanza” after only having known it as an instrumental.
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Eric Clapton & Friends
The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale
Bushbranch/Surfdog
The first question one might ask upon discovering Eric Clapton has released a heartfelt J.J. Cale tribute one year after Cale’s passing July 26, 2013, would be: How closely did the Oklahoman’s No. 1 disciple hew to that remarkably nonchalant, front-porch sound?
