About Author: TJNelson

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TJ Nelson is a regular CD reviewer and editor at World Music Central. She is also a fiction writer. Check out her latest book, Chasing Athena's Shadow. Set in Pineboro, North Carolina, Chasing Athena's Shadow follows the adventures of Grace, an adult literacy teacher, as she seeks to solve a long forgotten family mystery. Her charmingly dysfunctional family is of little help in her quest. Along with her best friends, an attractive Mexican teacher and an amiable gay chef, Grace must find the one fading memory that holds the key to why Grace’s great-grandmother, Athena, shot her husband on the courthouse steps in 1931. Traversing the line between the Old South and New South, Grace will have to dig into the past to uncover Athena’s true crime.

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  • Famed musician, bandleader and independent record label owner Eddie Blazonczyk Sr. died Monday, May 21, 2012 at Palos Community Hospital in Palos Heights, Illinois from natural causes. Mr. Blazonczyk was...

    Polka’s Eddie Blazonczyk Dies

    Posted on May 22, 2012 | No Comments
    Famed musician, bandleader and independent record label owner Eddie Blazonczyk Sr. died Monday, May 21, 2012 at Palos Community Hospital in Palos Heights, Illinois from natural causes. Mr. Blazonczyk was...

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  • Niyaz Sumud (Six Degrees Records, 2012) With collaborative efforts like the self-titled Niyaz and Nine Heavens under their belts – not to mention solo recordings like From Night to the...

    Steadfast Niyaz

    Posted on May 18, 2012 | No Comments
    Niyaz Sumud (Six Degrees Records, 2012) With collaborative efforts like the self-titled Niyaz and Nine Heavens under their belts – not to mention solo recordings like From Night to the...

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  • Sarazino Everyday Salama (Cumbancha, 2012) If there were any justice in the world I would be sick and tired of hearing Sarazino. The hip and wildly addictive sound of Sarazino...

    Potent Global Fusion

    Posted on May 10, 2012 | 1 Comment
    Sarazino Everyday Salama (Cumbancha, 2012) If there were any justice in the world I would be sick and tired of hearing Sarazino. The hip and wildly addictive sound of Sarazino...

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  • Marcel Khalife Fall of the Moon (Nagam Records, 2012) Listeners dipping into Marcel Khalife’s double CD Fall of the Moon will surely find a cool elixir to slake their musical...

    Cool Elixir

    Posted on April 27, 2012 | No Comments
    Marcel Khalife Fall of the Moon (Nagam Records, 2012) Listeners dipping into Marcel Khalife’s double CD Fall of the Moon will surely find a cool elixir to slake their musical...

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  • Kamerunga Worlds Kaleid (Kamerunga Records, 2012) Sliding the northeastern Australian band Kamerunga into a genre would be a bit like putting a sweater on my cat – difficult and in...

    Worlds Kaleid

    Posted on April 24, 2012 | 1 Comment
    Kamerunga Worlds Kaleid (Kamerunga Records, 2012) Sliding the northeastern Australian band Kamerunga into a genre would be a bit like putting a sweater on my cat – difficult and in...

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  • Colin Farish and John-Carlos Perea Coyote Jump: Waking from the Roots (Canyon Records, 2012) Native American music often comes with the rep for being rigidly spare, opting to stick to...

    Waking from the Roots

    Posted on April 21, 2012 | No Comments
    Colin Farish and John-Carlos Perea Coyote Jump: Waking from the Roots (Canyon Records, 2012) Native American music often comes with the rep for being rigidly spare, opting to stick to...

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  • Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 Concert Duke Performances Page Auditorium Duke University, Durham, North Carolina April 5th, 2012 Loaded with potent African rhythms, a stunning brass section and an explosive...

    Sheer Force of Afrobeat

    Posted on April 6, 2012 | No Comments
    Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 Concert Duke Performances Page Auditorium Duke University, Durham, North Carolina April 5th, 2012 Loaded with potent African rhythms, a stunning brass section and an explosive...

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  • Ebo Taylor Appia Kwa Bridge (Strut Records, 2012) Looking to add some razor-sharp kicks to your music collection? Well, look no further than Ebo Taylor’s Appia Kwa Bridge. Set for...

    Appia Kwa Bridge

    Posted on April 5, 2012 | No Comments
    Ebo Taylor Appia Kwa Bridge (Strut Records, 2012) Looking to add some razor-sharp kicks to your music collection? Well, look no further than Ebo Taylor’s Appia Kwa Bridge. Set for...

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  • Loga Ramin Torkian Mehraab (Six Degrees Records, 2012) Iranian composer and musician Loga Ramin Torkian’s debut solo recording Mehraab is a densely rich musical landscape that is both exotic and...

    Entrancing Mehraab

    Posted on March 22, 2012 | No Comments
    Loga Ramin Torkian Mehraab (Six Degrees Records, 2012) Iranian composer and musician Loga Ramin Torkian’s debut solo recording Mehraab is a densely rich musical landscape that is both exotic and...

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  • Geomungo Factory Metamorphosis (Dada Media, 2012) Every once in a while I get a CD that is truly astonishing, I mean something that stops any bit of office business or...

    Delightfully Daring Geomungo Factory

    Posted on March 17, 2012 | No Comments
    Geomungo Factory Metamorphosis (Dada Media, 2012) Every once in a while I get a CD that is truly astonishing, I mean something that stops any bit of office business or...

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