Recent Street-Smart Releases

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  Bob Marley / Bob Marley & the Wa …
  The Capitol Session '73
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  Previously unreleased live-in-the-studio set that documents the Wailers as a group and not just Bob Marley's backing band.

  - Mark Deming
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  Martha Wainwright
  Love Will Be Reborn
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  The Canadian singer/songwriter shares with her audience the agony and hope that comes with divorce.

  - Mark Deming
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  Kanye West
  Donda
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  Exhaustively long and meandering, Kanye's tenth studio album still holds a creative spark that suggests there's a vision buried beneath the monolith.

  - Fred Thomas
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  Alejandro Escovedo
  La Cruzada
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  The celebrated singer/songwriter translates his concept album about the immigrant experience from English into Spanish.

  - Mark Deming
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  James McMurtry
  The Horses and the Hounds
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  The great Texas singer/songwriter makes an album where the music is as powerful and exciting as his outstanding songs.

  - Mark Deming
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  Kenny Garrett
  Sounds from the Ancestors
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  On his 20th album, the saxophonist and his ensemble explore the West African roots in soul, gospel, Afro-Cuban jazz, and more.

  - Thom Jurek
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  Heartless Bastards
  A Beautiful Life
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  Feeling more like an Erika Wennerstrom solo LP than a band effort, this finds her growing and reaching out as an artist.

  - Mark Deming
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  Jungle
  Loving in Stereo
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  The third album from this groove-centric U.K. group trades the melancholy undertone of their last record for a disco-ready atmosphere of positivity and celebration.

  - Fred Thomas
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  Meatbodies
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  The group's third album is a reworked batch of demos that deliver first-rate garage psych, while also touching on shoegaze and indie rock.

  - Tim Sendra
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  GA-20
  Try It... You Might Like It! GA-20 D …
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  The Massachusetts trio deliver a riotously raw tribute to the great Chicago bluesman.

  - Thom Jurek