Category: Entertainment

Until now, there have arguably been four essential box sets for Sinatra fans: The Song Is You, covering his early work with Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra; The Best of the Columbia Years, which documents his first great period as a soloist from 1943 to 1952; The Capitol Years, which showcases his superb work with...

Sam Butler, Raise Your Hands! Sometimes a new album comes from so far out in left field it doesn’t even show up on incoming radar. It just hits like a full force gale, and doesn’t stop making a stand and raising sand. Sam Butler has been the guitarist in the Blind Boys of Alabama for...

Folksinger Richard Farina recorded three auspicious albums with his wife Mimi (Joan Baez’s sister) in the mid 1960s and, in 1966, issued one much-talked-about novel, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. At the time, it looked like up for Farina himself—until two days after the book’s publication, when he died in...

In 2000, The Beatles collected all of their number one singles and put them into a satisfying collection called 1. It contained 27 classic tracks that encompassed their productive 1962-1970 years before internal strife led them all onto more or less lucrative but completely satisfying solo careers. If you’re a Beatles fan, there is more...