Blues

BEN HARPER: Role Models(0)

July 8, 2009

With White Lies for Dark Times, Ben Harper finds his genre-defying hybrid taking root in rockier plains—and that musical immediacy creates a tension that ratchets up his always on-point lyrics . . .

BEN HARPER: Role Models

25 Of Our Favorite Songs From 1984-2009

The older one gets, the more one looks back at those years now gone. American Songwriter’s reached the ripe age of 25 and the best years are ahead. But as happy as turning 25 makes us, we decided to look back at all the songs we’ve found and loved since 1984, the year the magazine started . . .

BECK > One Foot In The Grave (Deluxe Reissue)

In 1993, he and a few musicians, including Calvin Johnson of K Records, recorded this lo-fi masterpiece on out-of-tune guitars and rusty microphones, deep in the woods drunk on 99 cent beers . . .

VARIOUS ARTISTS > Fillmore: The Last Days

his film, originally released in 1972, comes off as a raw look into Bill Graham’s last shows at his landmark Fillmore West venue in San Francisco . . .