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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

Putumayo Presents Arabic Beat

TJ Nelson July 29, 2012 No Comments

Various Artists Putumayo Presents Arabic Beat (Putumayo World Music, 2012) Anyone who’s read my reviews with any regularity knows that I just go all gooey…

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Fatou

TJ Nelson July 27, 2012 No Comments

Fatoumata Diawara Fatou (World Circuit/Nonesuch Records, 2012) Kicking offer her debut recording on August 28th on the Nonesuch Records label, the Malian singer/songwriter Fatoumata Diarawa…

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Without Walls

TJ Nelson July 22, 2012 No Comments

Dorantes Sin Muros! (Universal Music Spain, 2012) With previous recordings Orobroy and Sur, Sevillian pianist David Peña Dorantes is back with his latest Sin Muros!,…

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El Rumor de Tus Tangos

TJ Nelson July 21, 2012 No Comments

Trio Garufa El Rumor de Tus Tangos (Garufa Records, 2012) Curses! As I have no tango skills, I had to sit chair bound through a…

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The Woman Who Stared at Sheep … And the Sheep Stared Back

TJ Nelson July 20, 2012 No Comments

All right, my little chipmunks let me tell you a story… Once upon a time there was this performance artist and she cooked up a…

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A Portrait of Cape Verde’s Titina

TJ Nelson July 20, 2012 No Comments

Titina Portrait (Network Records, 2012) I’m always a little surprised at the capricious nature of the music industry. It’s sort of a lesson in futility…

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Wildly Expressive Global Influences

TJ Nelson June 30, 2012 No Comments

Nickodemus Moon People (ESL Music, 2012) Admit it, every once in a while you need some ferocious tunes. You need to walk down the street,…

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Trumpet Magic

TJ Nelson June 27, 2012 No Comments

Ibrahim Maalouf Diagnostic (M’ister Productions, 2012) Just for a moment forget everything you know, or think you know, about the trumpet or acceptable genres in…

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Sheer Guitar Virtuosity

TJ Nelson June 21, 2012 No Comments

Gerardo Núñez Travesia (ACT Music, 2012) I thought I’d have to do something drastic in order to get a listen to flamenco guitarist Gerardo Núñez’s…

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Blue Cha Cha

TJ Nelson June 16, 2012 No Comments

Manuel Galban Blue Cha Cha (Concord Picante, 2012) Cuban guitarist and bandleader Manuel Galban’s final recording Blue Cha Cha hits the streets June 26th and…

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