Slang of Ages podcast interview with Deborah Holland about her album – ‘I Made it This Far’ (2025) –
‘I Made It This Far’ is available now as a download and CD. It’s quite a journey. Thank you for your time.
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Preston Interviews Toto keyboardist Dennis Atlas as he prepares for the US 2025 tour
‘My Magical Wonderland’ is this creation of a selection of songs that I wrote, very personal experiences, and it’s my solo album; it came out in 2021, and now it’s coming out again but in a new way in 2025.
Short Tracks: ‘Son Con Guaguancó’ by Celia Cruz (2025 reissue)
‘Reissued on heavy, high-quality vinyl in honor of Craft Latino’s celebration of Celia Cruz’s centennial, ‘Son con Guaguancó’ is a vibrant and rhythmically rich album that showcases Cruz’s incredible vocal power and mastery of Afro-Cuban music. Originally released during her time with La Sonora Matancera, this song blends son cubano with guaguancó, a subgenre of […]
Short Tracks: Waves 3 by Fernando Perdomo (2025)
March brings us to the third in a series of twelve albums by Fernando Perdomo. The progressive rocker continues to raise the bar in his all-instrumental progression rock series, giving us 10 more expansive and inspirational rockers. The concept itself seems complicated to fathom, as to date, Perdomo has given us a level of quality […]
Short Tracks: ‘Chicago Kinfolk: The Juke Joint Blues’ by Terry Blade (2025)
“Nothin’ But The Blues (featuring Theresa Needham” is a perfect opening to Terry Blade’s first full studio album since his award-winning 2023 release, ‘Ethos: Son of a Sharecropper”. The Chicago-based singer/songwriter continues his mission of educating the public about folk and blessings while creating a memorable musical canvas to explore. “Nothing But The Blues,” with […]
Short Tracks: “I Made It This Far” By Deborah Holland (2025)
Deborah Holland is a jack of all trades and the master of several. A member of the musically talented trio The Refugees, Holland, along with Wendy Waldman and Cidny Bullens, produced the excellent 2024 release, California. While that album relied on the group’s interpretation of classic folk-rock, Holland gets to flex her considerable songwriting muscles […]
Short Tracks: Review of Fania Records: The Latin Sound of New York (1964-1978)
I’m hardly a fan of greatest hits collection. However, the artists and songs on this collection make it worth repeated listening. Fania Records is synonymous with the explosion of salsa music in New York during the 1960s and 1970s, and this compilation delivers an outstanding collection of classic and near-classic songs that capture the era’s […]
Short Tracks: Fernando Perdomo – ‘Waves 2’
Perhaps guitarist, singer/songwriter, and producer Fernando Perdomo should have slowly ramped up his twelve-album series. ‘Waves,’ released in January 2025, is an inviting and daring collection of songs. Perdomo will release the incising ‘Waves 2’ in February 2025. Has the journeyman guitarist reached the same heights as the first ‘Waves’ album? Listening to Waves and […]
Short Tracks: ‘Griot Songs’ by Omar Thomas Large Ensemble (2025)
The third release by the Omar Thomas Large Ensemble is just as bold as the group’s last release, ‘We Will Know: An LGBT Civil Rights Piece in For Movements,’ released over 10 years ago. ‘Griot Songs, ’ a nod to the West African tradition of storytelling to share community history and tradition, encompasses a series […]
Short Tracks: ‘Holding Space’ by Dennis Mitcheltree and Johannes Wallmann (2025)
Holding Space is a musical collaboration between two musical titans that is long overdue. Wallmann and Mitcheltee have been musical and personal friends for almost 30 years. Geography may have played a part in this being their first project together, as Mitcheltree is in Las Angelos and Wallmann in Madison, Wisconsin. Another factor is that […]
