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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.
Album reviews

Ricardo Silveira and Vinicius Cantuaria Deliver a Truly Delightful Collaboration with Remarkable Depth

TJ Nelson September 25, 2013 No Comments

Ricardo Silveira and Vinicius Cantuaria RSVC (Adventure Music, 2013) Sleek and silky, lush and lovely, Adventure Music’s release of RSVC is a delicious dive into…

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Re-issue of Four Stunning World Music Classics on Real World Records

TJ Nelson September 19, 2013 No Comments

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Love & Devotion (Real World Records, 2013 reissue) Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brooks – Star Rise (Real World…

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Super Charged Robert Randolph & The Family Band

TJ Nelson July 27, 2013 No Comments

Robert Randolph & The Family Band Lickety Split (Blue Note, 2013) Looking for a cure for that mid-summer ennui, well, look no further than Robert…

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JeConte’s Afropop Feel-good Grooves

TJ Nelson July 23, 2013 No Comments

JeConte & The Mali Allstars Mali Blues (Soul Now Records, 2013) Pooling a line-up of musicians that include harmonica player and rhythm guitarist Boubacar Sidibe,…

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Is it music or are we just being played?

TJ Nelson July 17, 2013 1 Comment

One day while muscling a load of wet laundry into the dryer I caught the strains of some sadistically sappy music coming from the next…

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Rip Roaring Romp with The Blues

TJ Nelson July 9, 2013 No Comments

Trampled Under Foot Badlands (Telarc/Concord Music Group, 2013) Possessed with a juke joint soulfulness against a home town rock band sensibility, the rock/blues group Trampled…

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Zingaros present an Irresistible Fusion of Tango and Gypsy Music

TJ Nelson June 24, 2013 No Comments

Zingaros Gitango (ARC Music, 2013) Pairing the rowdy good fun of gypsy music with the lush poignancy of Argentinian tango, Zingaros’s second recording Gitango is…

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Preciously Rooted to the Earth

TJ Nelson June 18, 2013 No Comments

Etran Finatawa The Sahara Sessions (Riverboat Records/World Music Network, 2013) Recorded in the Saharan desert with only an animal skin tent for shelter, the Niger…

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The Journey of a True Balladeer of Irish folk

TJ Nelson June 13, 2013 No Comments

Noel McLoughlin Home Is the Rover – Traditional Songs from Scotland & Ireland (ARC Music, 2013) ARC Music’s offering Home Is the Rover – Traditional…

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Buika’s Bravest Record

TJ Nelson June 12, 2013 No Comments

Buika La Noche Mas Larga (Warner Music Spain, 2013) Vocalist Concha Buika, along with pianist Ivan “Melon” Lewis and percussionist Ramon Porrina, tosses convention out…

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