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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

Searing and Exuberant Robert Randolph

TJ Nelson December 28, 2017 No Comments bluesgospelRobert Randolphsoul

Robert Randolph & The Family Band – Got Soul (Sony Masterworks, 2017) Robert Randolph puts his latest recording with The Family Band called Got Soul…

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2017 Holiday Gift Guide – Day 5

TJ Nelson December 9, 2017 No Comments gift guide

                  Acoustic guitar starter kit

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2017 Holiday Gift Guide – Day 4

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2017 Holiday Gift Guide – Day 3

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2017 Holiday Gift Guide – Day 2

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2017 Holiday Gift Guide – Day 1

TJ Nelson December 5, 2017 No Comments gift guideThe Beatlestoys

It’s that time of year when World Music Central gives our readers the skinny on what’s out there for the music lover on your list.…

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2017 Holiday Music Guide

TJ Nelson November 23, 2017 No Comments Alan JacksonChristmas musicElvis PresleyHerb AlpertHerbert von Karajanholiday musicPlacido DomingoReba McEntiresouthern rockSultans of String

Do you remember last January when you said, “Hey, just throw all them in that big plastic bag,” and the other person did exactly that?…

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Editorials

At A Loss

TJ Nelson October 3, 2017 No Comments

A couple of weeks ago I sat down and settled in to watch the 1968 concert film Monterey Pop by D.A. Pennebaker that I had…

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Album reviews

Baraka Moon’s Magic Carpet Ride across the Globe

TJ Nelson September 29, 2017 No Comments Baraka MoonStephen KentSukhawat Ali Khanworld fusionworld music

Baraka Moon – Wind Horse (Baraka Moon Music, 2017) Following up on their 2016 release of Eternal, the San Francisco based Baraka Moon is back…

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Impeccable and Spellbinding Performances by Omar Faruk Tekbilek

TJ Nelson September 27, 2017 No Comments Middle Eastern musicOmar Faruk TekbilekTurkish musicworld fusionworld music

Omar Faruk Tekbilek – Love Is My Religion (Alif Records, 2017) Love Is My Religion out on the Alif Records label, the latest offering by…

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