Posts by Doug Collette

[rating=8.00] Although The Story of Sonny Boy Slim is Gary Clark Jr.’s second full-length album for Warner Bros., he’s made over a half-dozen EP’s and LP’s prior to its release, so it’s fair to say he’s a seasoned recording artist at this point in his career. Which is a roundabout way of saying he’s enacted […]

When Los Lobos last appeared in Vermont in 2014, they were wielding acoustic guitars at the Flynn Theatre in Burlington in support of their Disconnected in New York album. In this two-hour plus performance in the cozy confines of The Rusty Nail in Stowe, on the threshold of the Labor Day weekend, this little ol’ […]

[rating=8.00] For all intents and purposes, Tommy Keene’s albums all sound the same yet sound fresh and invigorating from one to the other.  Recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis (as was 1989’s Based on Happy Times), Laugh in the Dark is no exception to that self-imposed  rule (the Washington DC native has never experimented much […]

[rating=9.00] With the release of Find A Way to Care, John Mayall has effectively shed the oft-overused moniker of “Godfather of the British Blues.” The appellation may remain accurate, but the longevity of Mayall’s career, and the continued vitality he demonstrates here, posit him as one of the most important figures in contemporary blues of […]

On the evening of August 15 at Rutland Vermont’s beautiful Paramount Theatre, Big Head Todd and The Monsters played a set of pure rock and roll music best described as an exercise in the power of understatement. And not just in comparison to the opening performance of JJ Grey & Mofro: the Colorado-based quartet proved […]

[rating=8.00] The opening track on Jackie Greene’s Back to Birth, “Silver Lining,” has a self-assured positivism that sets the tone for the whole record, not a total surprise as it was produced by Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin who also oversaw previous work of Greene’s including American Myth and Giving Up the Ghost. The comfort level […]

Bodies began to bob and weave as soon as soon as Soule Monde began to play at Burlington’s Waterfront Park August 7th, those undulations from the burgeoning crowed of Twiddleheads, soon to be accompanied by beatific smiles of delight as the duo’s open-ended, infectious jazz took hold. It mattered less if these were reactions from […]

Take Five is a seasonal jazz column by Glide contributor Doug Collette, who will be taking snap-shot reviews of recent jazz albums… Wes Montgomery/In the Beginning (Resonance):  ‘Early Recordings From 1949-1958,’ deserves the sumptuous packaging and meticulous annotation within the enclosed fifty-six page booklet because the musicianship transcends the sound quality (understandably so given it was recorded between five […]

[rating=8.00] On the splendid live recording Back to Macon, GA Gregg Allman and his stellar eight-piece band offer a resounding statement of purpose. Concentrating on bonafide classics from the repertoire of the iconic Southern blues-rock band he helped found, The Allman Brothers, the younger sibling of the late Duane Allman lays claim to their legacy […]

[rating=8.00] Warren Haynes has done more than his share of musical exploration during the course of his career. From working with outlaw country artist David Allen Coe he joined Dickey Betts’ Pattern Disruptive band which led directly to his extended tenure with The Allman Brothers during which time  he formed Gov’t Mule, now a  twenty […]