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Sugar's Picks
4:11 pm
Fri September 28, 2012

Sugar's Picks Oct. 1, 2012

Look through this week's Picks by Sugar, and click below to see a list of the new music released this week.

NEW RELEASES, October 1, 2012

New Releases
3:03 pm
Mon September 24, 2012

New Releases: September 24, 2012

Check out the new music released this week!

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Sugar's Picks
2:44 pm
Mon September 24, 2012

Sugar's Picks Sept 24, 2012

Elle King / The Elle King EP / Fat Possum

Only 3 tracks for airplay, but 3 very hot tracks.

Diana Krall / Glad Rag Doll / Verve

She's got the voice, she can play the piano, Marc Ribot, Jay Bellerose,  Colin Linden & T Bone Burnett (he produced the CD) are on board for a nice twist, and you fellas might enjoy the liner photos.

Lee Ritenour / Rhythm Sessions / Concord

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Sugar's Picks
2:55 pm
Wed September 19, 2012

Sugar's Picks September 17, 2012

Meshell Ndegeocello / A dedication To Nina Simone / Naive

A personal representation of the broad spectrum of the music of the political & iconic vocalist, Ndegecello is joined by Sinead O'Connor, Toshi Reagon & Lizz Wright among others,  to pay tribute.

Maceo Parker / Soul Classics / Razor & Tie

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The Record
2:14 pm
Tue September 18, 2012

Listen To A Long Conversation With Bonnie Raitt

Credit Susan Bibeau / Folk Alley
Bonnie Raitt accepts her Lifetime Achievement Award at the Americana Music Awards in Nashville on Sept. 12, 2012.

Originally published on Thu October 11, 2012 11:12 am

  • Listen to Bonnie Raitt and Ann Powers at the 2012 Americana Music Conference

Last Wednesday I had the enormous privilege of sitting down with the masterful Bonnie Raitt for the keynote conversation at the annual Americana Music Conference and Festival in Nashville. Actually, I stood while blues fusion matriarch sat — I'd aggravated an old back injury moments before we took the stage, and my mentioning this to the crowd set Bonnie up for her first zinger of the chat: "What was his name?" she teased.

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Deceptive Cadence
2:08 pm
Tue September 18, 2012

Trifonov's Triumph: Tchaikovsky, Twice Over

Originally published on Mon September 24, 2012 9:22 am

At just 21 years old, Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, the most recent winner of the Tchaikovsky Competition, is zooming into the classical music stratosphere — and with his new album he's out to prove he's here to stay.

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