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Friday, April 18, 2025
Full Show Friday: Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers - June 12, 2022
Live Stream: Good Friday Blues @ St. Marks Church In-The-Bowery
Thursday, April 17, 2025
New Single Video from Skinny Lister "Yorkshire Belle"
Album Review: Prism Shores - Out From Underneath
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
New Single from Savanna Dean Reeves "How About You"
Album Review: Bootsy Collins - Album of the Year #1 Funkateer
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
New Single/Video from The Beaches "Last Girls At The Party"
Album Review: Galactic & Irma Thomas - Audience With The Queen
Monday, April 14, 2025
Dylan Cover #677 My Morning Jacket "The Man in Me"
Almost a forgotten throw away track from Bob, which proves how great he really is, this peach of a song originally appeared on New Morning. The famous La-la-la's are so unlike Bob it instantly stands out as unique in his back catalog. "The Man In Me" is playful, loving, sincere yet deceptive. It took on an added life after showing up in the cult classic The Big Lebowski and now has a whole new generation digging its quirky sounds.
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Friday, April 11, 2025
Record Store Day is Saturday April 12th
There are a ton of special things on that list that we would love to own and hope you can help support this great cause as well.
Full Show Friday: Johnny Sketch & The Dirty Notes - 10/08/2024 - Live at the Maple Leaf
Thursday, April 10, 2025
New Single/Video from Bee Appleseed "I Believe In You"
Happy 35th Anniversary to Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
New Single/Video from Little Feat "Midnight Flight"
Album Review: Fleshbore - Painted Paradise
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
New Single from Curbside "Black & Grey"
Album Review: Craig Finn - Always Been
Monday, April 7, 2025
Dylan Cover #676 Cheap Trick "Please, Mrs. Henry" Live
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Sunday, April 6, 2025
Happy 10th Anniversary to Bop English - Constant Bop
Friday, April 4, 2025
Full Show Friday: The Caesar Brothers FunkBox - LIVE from The Funky Uncle 2021
We kick off our Full Show Friday special focus this month with New Orleans own Caesar Brothers FunkBox playing live back in 2021 during the height of covid.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
New Single/Video from The Last Mile "Anything"
Album Review: Devil Makes Three - Spirits
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
New Single from Milena Casado "O.C.T (Oda to the Crazy Times)" ft. KOKAYI
Live Review: The Hard Quartet - Live 3/28/25 Warsaw Brooklyn, NYC
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
New Single from Dream, Ivory "At Zero"
Album Review: The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble - Gemini
Monday, March 31, 2025
Dylan Cover #675 Margaret Glaspy - In The Summertime
When Dylan started moving out from his 'Jesus phase' he wrote songs that could be interpreted as religious, but tended to be more spiritual. These became Shot of Love. Could "In The Summertime" be a straight gospel song? Sure. Is it "clearly and unequivocally an eloquent exposition of relationship with God"? Hmm, not so sure anything Bob writes is clear. Could it just use some religious touchstones to move things languidly along? Probably. Musically the tune is slow moving, as Dylan keeps it calm, working though the spiritual while tying it to the human experience in his own way.
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Sunday, March 30, 2025
Happy 55th Anniversary to Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
Friday, March 28, 2025
Full Show Friday: The Prodigy - Live Rock Am Ring 2009
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Album Review: The Paragons - On The Beach with The Paragons
Happy Opening Day!
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
RtBE is here to wish you a Happy Opening Day! If you want to read a great piece about baseball check out this excerpt from Roger Angell's The Summer Game
Opening Day should be a national holiday, plain and simple. Once winter is gone (at least officially), Baseball can never arrive soon enough. Here's hoping your favorite team wins, especially if you are a fellow Mets fan. Let's Go Mets!
We know the ghost of Steve Goodman and Eddie Vedder are both rooting for those Cubbies...
Here are some more baseball inspired tunes to start the magical day, when we are all in first place:
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
New Single from Carolyn Wonderland "Sooner or Later"
Album Review: Silver Synthetic - Rosalie
For their sophomore release, Rosalie, the New Orleans based Silver Synthetic spiritually traveled west and exhaled under some California sunshine, cruising effortlessly from Bakersfield down to Laurel Canyon. Weeping guitars and added pedal steel twang around restrained songwriting, relaxing the band as the riffs and breathy vocals ease out.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
New Single from Upset Boy and the Queens "Amphetamine Queen"
Album Review: Kinky Friedman - Poet of Motel 6
It is of Kinky Friedman's last album, Poet of Motel 6. Friedman passed away last year and this solid offering is a fitting send off.
Support the artist, buy the album, read the review and peeps some video below:
Monday, March 24, 2025
Dylan Cover #674 Daniel Widegren "Spanish Harlem Incident"
Easily one of my favorite early songs of Dylan's career, I love the sing-song playing of this tune and it's hints of his musical repertoire opening up. "OnTheCliffsOfYourWildCatCharmsI'mRiding" combined is such a sweet phrase and how he strung it out it is fantastic. You can see a young Bob becoming infatuated with a woman he saw, being inspired to write a tune that is filled with primal lust and sexiness. A song I have always wanted to learn to play and cover...but that is for another post...
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This is the first time we are checking out Daniel Widegren, a blues singer from Sweden.
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Saturday, March 22, 2025
Happy 60th Anniversary to Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home
Friday, March 21, 2025
Full Show Friday: DIIV - Live @ Nox Orae 2022
Thursday, March 20, 2025
New Single/Video from Evidence of a Struggle "Give Us A Kiss"
Album Review: The Robert Cray Band - You Know I Feel Alright (Live in Chicago 1985)
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
New Single/Video from Daisy The Great "Ballerina"
“Ballerina represents a childhood dream of perfection: something that is unattainable, but real enough to give yourself something to compare yourself to,” explains the band. “You look for the ballerina in the search for beauty, purpose, talent, body, and success — and prescribe it to the people you see around you and on social media, who seem to have that air of flawlessness. But the truth is they are also looking for ballerinas because we live in a society that feeds you this idea that even though you’re not perfect, someone out there is.”
Album Review: Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Jazz Is Dead 22
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
New Single/Video from Dead Pioneers "Mythical Cowboy"
Album Review: ZZ Ward - Liberation
It is of ZZ Ward's newest release, Liberation.
Support the artist, buy the album, read the review and peep some video below:
Monday, March 17, 2025
Dylan Cover #673 Van Morrison-"Just Like A Woman" Live
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Van Morrison has some amazing albums and some not so amazing. RtBE are big fans of the era of Morrison that this song was recorded during.
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Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Here is Angels & Vagabonds Irish inspired tune, "Queens Boulevard Serenade":
The story goes...in the lead up to our first St. Paddy's Day gig our band (Angels & Vagabonds) were working on some traditional Irish songs to play and our lead singer/keyboard player Don McNally realized they were basically all the same chords just re-arraigned.
So the Irish American from Woodside, Queens, NYC dug into his past and crafted QBS. He brought it to the group and after a few tweaks it was ready for prime time, we actually played it only about a week after it was written.
Friday, March 14, 2025
Live Stream: Unbroken Chain: Phil Lesh Tribute All Weekend
Full Show Friday: Dropkick Murphys - Hellfest 2019
St. Patrick's Day is a few days away, so to get in the mood, here is Dropkick Murphy's @ Hellfest 2019. Pro Shot, Pro Sound, Full Setlist below. Enjoy!