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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.
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Dubalicious Dub Colossus

TJ Nelson March 11, 2013 No Comments

Dub Colossus Dub Me Tender Vol. 1 & 2 (Real World Records, 2013) Tired of staring out the window into the grimy edges of winter…

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Latin Noir Everything Happens on the Beach

TJ Nelson March 5, 2013 No Comments

Various Artists Latin Noir Everything Happens on the Beach (Piranha Musik, 2013) In my college days I spent a good amount of time in the…

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Expertly Crafted Kaledophonica

TJ Nelson March 1, 2013 No Comments

Spiro Kaledophonica (Real World Records, 2013) Real World Records has put out a honey of a recording with Spiro’s Kaledophonica. Following up on their 2011…

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Ingenious Way of Dramatizing Nature

TJ Nelson February 23, 2013 No Comments

Bruno Coulais Microcosmos (Varese Vintage Records, 2013) Let me start off by saying the original motion picture soundtrack Microcosmos is a classical recording. Composed and…

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Blues Man Magic Slim Dies

TJ Nelson February 22, 2013 No Comments

The blues guitarist and singer known as Magic Slim died Thursday, February 21, 2013 at a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania hospital. The Mississippi blues man had been…

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Dynamic Creole Choir of Cuba

TJ Nelson February 22, 2013 No Comments

The Creole Choir of Cuba Santiman (Real World Records, 2013) Following up on their debut recording Tande-La on the Real World Records label, The Creole…

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Delightfully Satisfying Amazonia

TJ Nelson February 14, 2013 No Comments

Mario Adnet Amazonia On the Forest Trail (Adventure Music, 2013) Music fans might know the name Mario Adnet from such recordings as From the Heart,…

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Foxlight

TJ Nelson February 8, 2013 No Comments

Iarla O Lionaird Foxlight (Real World Records, 2013) Set for release on February 12th on the Real World Records label, Foxlight is the third solo…

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Putumayo Presents… Vintage France

TJ Nelson February 5, 2013 No Comments

Various Artists Vintage France (Putumayo World Music, 2013) Break out the wine, Brie and baguettes because Putumayo World Music is set to release on February…

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Intricate and Warm

TJ Nelson January 30, 2013 No Comments

Ballake Sissoko At Peace (Six Degrees Records, 2013) Ballake Sissoko’s follow-up to the 2009 recording Chamber Music with cellist Vincent Segal entitled At Peace is…

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