In 1964, the great New Orleans R&B singer Irma Thomas released her version of “Time Is On My Side,” a song that Danish-American jazz trombonist Kal Winding and his orchestra first released a year earlier. (The singers on that first recording were Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick and their cousin Cissy Houston, Whitney&...

Funeral For Justice is a fantastic record that should not have to exist. Last summer, during Tuareg rocker Mdou Moctar’s North American tour, his home country of Niger was thrown into chaos when right-wing militants overthrew the government. The coup temporarily stranded Moctar, aka Mahamadou Souleymane, and bandmates Ahmoudou Madassan...

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In the late ’80s, the late Johnny Cash, a mythic figure in the annals of country music, was dropped from his contract at longtime home Columbia Records. From there, Cash went to Mercury, but that deal didn’t last long. For a little while in the ’90s, Johnny Cash was without a label. Then he signed to Rick Rubin&...