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Artwork from the album Black Messiah
Mining Gold From The Music Stream: D’Angelo and the Vanguard, Black Messiah
Aaron M. Olson, February 24, 2021

Compared at the time of its release to Sly & The Family Stone’s masterpiece There’s A Riot Goin’ On, The Beach Boys’ near-mythical epic

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Chavela Vargas on her album, Lamento Borincano
Mining Gold From the Music Stream: Chavela Vargas - Lamento Borincano
Aaron M. Olson, February 10, 2021

Chavela Vargas was an iconoclast. Living and creating in constant irreverence and defiance of the prescribed heteronormative roles assigned to performance, dress, life, and love in her time and place, Vargas created ageless music of immense emotional depth and universality

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Minnie Riperton on her album, Come To My Garden
Mining Gold From the Music Stream: Minnie Riperton - Come To My Garden
Aaron M. Olson, January 27, 2021

Minnie Riperton is perhaps most widely remembered for the 1975 hit “Lovin’ You” and her soaring five-octave vocal range, but prior to her smoothed-out soft focus “AM Gold” notoriety Riperton had released

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Joe Meek at his home recording studio, 1960s
Mining Gold From the Music Stream: Joe Meek & The Blue Men - I Hear A New World
Aaron M. Olson, January 13, 2021

Composer and producer of the timeless instrumental classic "Telstar,” Joe Meek was one of the most influential rock n’ roll producers of all time.

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