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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

Live from Festival in the Desert in Timbuktu

TJ Nelson April 27, 2013 No Comments

Various Artists Live from Festival Au Desert Timbuktu (Clermont Music, 2013) Mali is one of those extraordinary places where weddings, baptisms, celebrations and gatherings of…

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Bombino Ups the Ante on His Tuareg Desert Blues/Rock Sound

TJ Nelson April 26, 2013 No Comments

Bombino Nomad (Nonesuch Records, 2013) Hooking up with The Black Keys guitarist and singer Dan Auerbach at Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, Tennessee,…

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R. Carlos Nakai and Will Clipman Awaken the Musical Fire

TJ Nelson April 21, 2013 No Comments

R. Carlos Nakai and Will Clipman Awakening the Fire (Canyon Records, 2013) Every once in a while I get one of those CDs that insists…

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Zedashe Recovers Lost Georgian Traditions

TJ Nelson April 18, 2013 1 Comment

Zedashe Intangible Pearls (Multiflora/Electric Cowbell, 2013) As unlikely as it may seem, a declaration and a civil war made the music on the Multiflora/Electric Cowbell’s…

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Vibrant And Alluring Vinicius Cantuaria

TJ Nelson April 13, 2013 No Comments

Vinicius Cantuaria Indio de Apartamento (Naïve, 2012) Many world music fans and those enamored with the Brazilian bossa nova will recognize Vinicius Cantuaria by such…

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Utterly Dazzling Bassekou Kouyate

TJ Nelson April 8, 2013 No Comments

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Jama Ko (Outhere Records, 2013) With recordings Segu Blue and the Grammy-nominated I Speak Fula to his credit, Mali’s…

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Paris Combo’s Savvy Sound

TJ Nelson April 6, 2013 1 Comment

Paris Combo 5 (DRG Records, 2013) With recordings like Paris Combo, Motifs, Living Room and Attraction to their credit, Paris Combo is back with 5,…

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Steeped in Absolute Loveliness

TJ Nelson March 30, 2013 No Comments

Ludovico Einaudi In a Time Lapse (Ponderosa Music & Art, 2013) I’m going to stray off the path of the usual for World Music Central…

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Concert reviews

The Gold Standard of Cuban Music

TJ Nelson March 26, 2013 No Comments

Juan De Marcos & The Afro-Cuban All Stars Page Auditorium, Duke University March 23, 2013 With recordings such as A Todo Cuba Le Gusta, Distinto,…

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Glorious Electrotango Adventure

TJ Nelson March 16, 2013 3 Comments

Bajofondo Presente (Sony Music Masterworks, 2013) It’s hard not to fall head over heels for Bajofondo’s latest Presente out on the Sony Music Masterworks label.…

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