Bill Bentley
- Aug 31, 2017
- 10 min
Bentley's Bandstand / September, 2017
Nicole Atkins, Goodnight Rhonda Lee. It's a strong sign when a new album gets both a ringing shout-out from The Replacements' Tommy...
Bill Bentley
- Aug 15, 2017
- 10 min
Bentley's Bandstand / August 2017
Lynn Castle, Rose Colored Corner.Talk about a marvel of modern determination: singer-songwriter Lynn Castle walked right up to the...
Bill Bentley
- Jul 11, 2017
- 9 min
Bentley's Bandstand / July 2017
Arthur Alexander. There are certain albums that can take on the glow of a hallowed time, one that offered eternal promise and endless...
Bill Bentley
- Jun 29, 2017
- 6 min
Bentley's Bandstand / Best of First Half of 2017
Pieta Brown, Postcards. If 2018 is going to hopefully bring an avalanche of justice, when wrongs are righted and things that got broken...
Bill Bentley
- Jun 12, 2017
- 10 min
Bentley's Bandstand / June 2017
Dan Auerbach, Waiting on a Song. The Black Keys have tended to race toward the aggro side of rock often enough to have staked their claim...
Bill Bentley
- May 16, 2017
- 10 min
Bentley's Bandstand / May 2017
Amy Black, Memphis. The sign on the front door of the African-American motorcycle club in Memphis said "Rattlesnakes do not commit...
Bill Bentley
- Apr 10, 2017
- 8 min
Bentley's Bandstand / April 2017
Pieta Brown, Postcards. Emotionally exquisite and passionately provocative. Those are the best two phrases to describe Pieta Brown's...
Bill Bentley
- Mar 7, 2017
- 9 min
Bentley's Bandstand / March 2017
Barry Jean Ancelet & Sam Broussard, Broken Promised Land. What happens when a noted Cajun folklorist/poet joins with one of Louisiana's...
Bill Bentley
- Feb 19, 2017
- 9 min
Bentley's Bandstand / February 2017
Bash & Pop, Anything Could Happen. Ten years ago there wouldn't have seemed like much chance of a Replacements reunion. Bandleader Paul...
Bill Bentley
- Jan 9, 2017
- 8 min
Bentley's Bandstand / January 2017
Dennis Coffey, Hot Coffey in the D. In 1968 Detroit was still on fire for musicians. Motown Records’ success had lit the city up, and its...
Bill Bentley
- Dec 29, 2016
- 11 min
Bentley's Bandstand / Best of 2016 (last half)
2016 was rough. Losing friends and artists all through the year just would not stop, and the Presidential election turned the country...
Bill Bentley
- Dec 13, 2016
- 10 min
Bentley's Bandstand / December 2016
The Big T.N.T. Show. During the 1960s when rock and roll was just becoming the currency of the realm for youth in America, there was a...
Bill Bentley
- Nov 15, 2016
- 9 min
Bentley's Bandstand / November 2016
Blind Boys of Alabama, Atom Bomb. As the new century started almost 17 years ago, one of America’s most venerable gospel groups turned a...