Its apt play on the Jeffersonian theme aside, Jefferson’s Tree Of Liberty is as stirring a statement as Volunteers was for all its revelry and glory. 

The ever-enigmatic Howe Gelb returns with the latest installment of his meandering musical saga, a restless trek that originated with Giant Sand more than 20 years ago and morphed over time to include its various offshoots — Calexico, The Band of Blacky Ranchette and Friends of Dean Martinez. 

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Forget, for the moment, his association with Deep Purple. That wasn’t the real Glenn Hughes.

An example of guerrilla filmmaking gone horribly wrong, “Desperately Seeking Paul McCartney” ineptly follows former teen ABC-TV news reporter Ruth Anson on her quest to reconnect with Paul McCartney, who, offhandedly, “proposed” marriage to Anson in a 1965 interview.

Full of fiery, fist-shaking anthems, with a few sweet ballads thrown in for good measure, Rebel Road finds Edgar Winter in a fighting mood.

Words alone could probably never really describe what it was like living with, and loving, a Beatle. Words and pictures, however, will get you as close as one can get.

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Mudhoney’s theme song could easily be “I’m Still Standing.”

When a musician’s claim to fame is staked on events that transpired four decades before, he or she is placed in the unenviable position of having to continuously compete with earlier accomplishments.