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Author: TJ Nelson

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.
Gifts

2016 Holiday Gift Guide – Day 2

TJ Nelson December 15, 2016 No Comments gift guidemusical instruments

Today’s portion of the Gift Guide is all about playing music. Isn’t about time your Uncle Fred finally took up the Irish whistle? Or perhaps…

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2016 Holiday Gift Guide – Day 1

TJ Nelson December 14, 2016 No Comments electronicsgift guideheadphonesmusic software

Right about now that leopard print Snuggie is probably looking like a fine gift idea, as are the Troll Chia Pets and one of those…

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Eros Coolness

TJ Nelson November 30, 2016 No Comments Cuban musicOmar SosaPaolo Fresupianotrumpet

Omar Sosa and Paolo Fresu – Eros (Tuk Music/Ota Records, 2016) Luxuriously elegant, seductive and exotically dreamy, the Tuk Music release Eros, born out of…

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2016 Christmas Music Guide

TJ Nelson November 29, 2016 No Comments Christmas music

Perhaps you’ve just ventured to the darkest part of the attic or basement, plucked out those dusty boxes from under the bags of horded, hideous…

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Album reviews

Kora Delight

TJ Nelson November 3, 2016 No Comments Dawda JobartehGambiaGambian musickora

Dawda Jobarteh – Transitional Times (Sterns Music, 2016) All too often kora music evokes the image of lacy traditional African tunes that fall into the…

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Obituaries

Malian World Music Innovator Issa Bagayogo Dies at 55

TJ Nelson October 25, 2016 3 Comments Issa Bagayogokamele ngoniMaliMalian music

Mali’s musical landscape is a fair bit dimmer with the death of Issa Bagayogo. The singer and musician passed away after a long illness on…

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Album reviews

Elemental Cuban Joy

TJ Nelson October 21, 2016 No Comments Afro-Cuban jazzCubaCuban musicRoberto Fonseca

Roberto Fonseca – ABUC (Impulse/Verve, 2016) I’m a greedy girl…and I’m sneaky. I have secreted my way into the dark, messy lair of our esteemed…

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Album reviews

Joe Bonamassa Live at the Greek Theatre

TJ Nelson October 7, 2016 1 Comment bluesJoe Bonamassa

  Joe Bonamassa – Joe Bonamassa Live at the Greek Theatre (J & R Adventures, 2016) Badass rocker and blues man Joe Bonamassa is back.…

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Elegant Intimacy and Brilliance

TJ Nelson September 23, 2016 No Comments IndiaIndian classical musicIndian musicRavi Shankarsitar

Ravi Shankar – Ravi Shankar In Hollywood (East Meets West Music, 2016) Like doling out single pieces of candy to a greedy child, the world…

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Mei Han and Red Chamber’s Globe-trotting Enchantment

TJ Nelson September 17, 2016 No Comments Chinese musicMei HanpipaRed Chamberzheng

Mei Han and Red Chamber – Classical & Contemporary Chinese Music (ARC Music, 2016) Dipping into the wonderful world of Chinese music, ARC Music is…

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