Bill Bentley
- Dec 13, 2017
- 9 min
Bentley's Bandstand / December 2017
Peter Bernstein, Signs LIVE! At the end of a long and discombobulating year, what could be better than a sheer blowing session by what is...
Bill Bentley
- Nov 18, 2017
- 12 min
Bentley's Bandstand / November 2017
Blind Boys of Alabama, Almost Home.When it’s time to turn toward the spirit world and work your way home, take the hands of the Blind...
Bill Bentley
- Oct 10, 2017
- 8 min
Bentley's Bandstand / October 2017
Amadou & Mariam, La Confusion.When it comes to modern African music, there is no greater joy expressed than by this married couple from...
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
- 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...
Frank Browning & Steve Weissman
- Jan 22, 2017
- 6 min
Little David Peddles Trump’s Big Agenda
David Horowitz, the Trotskyist radical turned far-right entrepreneur, has just published an instant best-seller, Big Agenda: President...
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...