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Alison Krauss - Alison Krauss   My parents lived

All I Intended to Be -

Alternate Roots: Somewhere in America - Another school shooting is like another Trump outrage --- you get numb. But last night I started to watch a video taken inside a Florida classroom as the killer shot

Amadou & Mariam: ‘We’ll shop with Gwyneth Paltrow’ - Decades after they had to leave Mali to launch any kind of career in music, Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia are its best known citizens. Dimanche à Bamako --- their

Amadou & Mariam: Dimanche a Bamako - Do you like music that makes you happy? I don't mean moderately happy, 7.5 on a scale of 10, isn't it a great day happy, kind of sort of happy. I mean

Amadou & Mariam: Welcome to Mali - Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia have climbed to the pinnacle of World Music. But "Welcome to Mali" is wrongly titled, for with this release, they've made another, dazzling ascent ---

Amadou and Mariam: Folila - There’s nothing harder than creating the follow-up to genius. The next Shakespeare play produced after “Hamlet& Michael Jackson’s follow-up to “Thriller” was…”Bad.” Harper’s Lee next book after “To Kill A Mockingbird” was…nothing. In 2005,

American Idiot -   American Idiot Green Day Work out? Have an iPod? Like that inspired "Rocky" feeling when the right music kicks in and you pick up

Amy Winehouse - It's damn rare that a three-minute pop confection digs under your skin, lyrics sticking to the tip of your tongue, a mental itch clawing at you

An Intimate Interview: Beneath the Surface of Bruce Springsteen - After a year on Broadway, the Bruce Springsteen evenings have come to an end. It’s an amazing show --- I saw it in January and reviewed it here -- and

Anat Cohen - Videos Anat Cohen and John Pizzarelli -- I Wanna Be Around Anat Cohen & Howard Alden: Cry Me A River Anat Cohen & Howard Alden: After You've Gone In 2008, the Jazz Journalists

Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective - SUPPORTING BUTLER: You can become a patron of this site, and automatically donate any amount you please — starting with $1 — each month. The service that enables this is

Ann Peebles: I Can’t Stand the Rain - One of the pleasures of loving music is stumbling upon a CD so good it's like a greatest hits compilation. "I Can't Stand the Rain" the 1973 release by Ann Peebles,

Anonymous 4 - In the Middle Ages, women weren’t allowed to sing in public cathedrals. As late as the 1980s, women weren’t performing medieval chant and polyphony. In 1986, four women wondered what

Antsy McClain and the Trailer Park Troubadours -

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Arcade Fire - At the end of a Carnegie Hall tribute to Bruce Springsteen, the Boss strolled onstage. He started to sing “Rosalita.” It's a long song and the

Aretha Franklin: 30 Greatest Hits - GUEST BUTLER JOE DEPRETA is a New York strategist, author, and essayist. He has written authoritatively for Head Butler on Sgt Pepper’s 50th Anniversary, John Lennon and Don Henley, and

Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace - In 1972, when she was 29, Aretha Franklin made a concert film. Sydney Pollack -- who had directed one noteworthy film (“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”) and would go on

Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul - Aretha was in our lives for so long we stopped putting her into heavy rotation. Then came the Kennedy Center Honors, Once again Aretha was a trending topic. When she