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Like a trickster or shapeshifter the bassist Mali Obomsawin slips easily between popular and jazzier forms. As a composer she can be fierce and incantatory, erecting songs that are defiant and accusatory while leaving the listener in their thrall. A citizen of Odanak First Nation, an Abenaki community located near the mouth of the Saint-François River in Quebec, on Sweet Tooth her debut as a bandleader she blended traditional music and indigenous mythology with contemporary chants and squalls of free improvisation...

Great White Wonder which appeared in the summer of 1969 is often regarded as the first significant bootleg album, a collection of twenty-four tracks which captured Bob Dylan two years earlier with The Band as they recorded what would later emerge as The Basement Tapes, or the fledgling folk singer almost a decade back as he hunkered down in...

The Spanish word 'mequetrefe', which roughly translates as 'good-for-nothing', can be applied equally to a lousy person or a shoddy product and carries other connotations, of nosiness, boisterousness, a sort of persistent yet flippant meddling, cheapness, shallowness or silliness, it can label outsiders, stragglers, wayfarers, and bums. While the word is mostly used as a pejorative, more ambivalently it...