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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

Voluptuous Second Nature

TJ Nelson February 4, 2012 No Comments

Minor Empire Second Nature (World Trip Records, 2011) Music fans looking to dip into a new sound should check out Minor Empire on their debut…

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Pleasurable Crocodile Blues

TJ Nelson February 1, 2012 No Comments

Samba Toure Crocodile Blues (World Music Network/Riverboat, 2011) Anybody who has read any number of my reviews knows well my addiction to Mali’s desert blues…

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No Stranger Here musical wonderland

TJ Nelson January 29, 2012 No Comments

Shubha Mudgal, Ursula Rucker and Business Class Refugees No Stranger Here (EarthSync, 2012) EarthSync’s latest offering is a real treat. Part devotional meditation, part savvy…

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Obituaries

Legendary Blues Singer Etta James Has Died

TJ Nelson January 20, 2012 No Comments

The Grammy award winning blues, soul, jazz and gospel singer Etta James, best known for the sultry track “At Last,” passed away at California’s Riverside…

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I Will Not Stand Alone

TJ Nelson January 18, 2012 No Comments

Kayhan Kalhor I Will Not Stand Alone (World Village, 2002) Kayhan Kalhor’s I Will Not Stand Alone, set for release on February 14, 2012 on…

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Egypt Unveiled

TJ Nelson January 11, 2012 No Comments

Hossam Ramzy and Phil Thornton Egypt Unveiled (ARC Music, 2011) If I told you there was this CD out there by a couple of musicians…

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Bending, blending and remaking Afro-Peruvian music

TJ Nelson January 9, 2012 No Comments

Novalima Karimba (ESL Music, 2012) Latin music fans can send up a collective wahoo because the Peruvian band Novalima’s latest is set to hit the…

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The inviting flavor of today’s Mexico

TJ Nelson January 1, 2012 1 Comment

Lila Downs Pecados y Milagros (Sony Music Mexico, 2012) Now would be a good time to mark your calendar, set up some alert on your…

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General News

2011 World Music Central Gift Guide

TJ Nelson December 6, 2011 No Comments

Here we are again for the World Music Central Gift Guide, ready to help you wend your way through some of best music and music-inspired…

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Obituaries

Indian Sarangi Master Dies

TJ Nelson November 28, 2011 No Comments

Famed sarangi player and vocalist Ustad Sultan Khan died Sunday, November 27, 2011 while being rushed to a Jodhpur, Rajasthan hospital. Mr. Khan, who had…

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