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Author: TJ Nelson

TJ Nelson is a regular CD reviewer and editor at Progressive Rock Central and World Music Central. She is also a fiction writer. Check out her book, Chasing Athena's Shadow. Set in Pineboro, North Carolina, Chasing Athena's Shadow follows the adventures of Grace, an adult literacy teacher, as she seeks to solve a long forgotten family mystery. Her charmingly dysfunctional family is of little help in her quest. Along with her best friends, an attractive Mexican teacher and an amiable gay chef, Grace must find the one fading memory that holds the key to why Grace’s great-grandmother, Athena, shot her husband on the courthouse steps in 1931. Traversing the line between the Old South and New South, Grace will have to dig into the past to uncover Athena’s true crime.
CD Reviews

The Endless Possibilities of Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan

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Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan – Small Town (ECM Records, 2017) The American guitarist, composer and arranger Bill Frisell has produced some extraordinarily fine music…

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Former Aphrodite’s Child Member and Solo Performer Dies

TJ Nelson January 26, 2015 No Comments

  Demis Roussos, former progressive rock group Aphrodite’s Child and solo singer, died January 25, 2015. Mr. Roussos died at Ygeia Hospital in Athens, Greece.…

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Swiss Surrealist Artist H. R. Giger Dies at 74

TJ Nelson May 13, 2014 No Comments

Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor and set designer H.R. Giger died Monday, May 12, 2014. Mr. Giger, perhaps best known for his design of the monster…

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British Fantasy Artwork Maestro Patrick Woodroffe Dies at 74

TJ Nelson May 13, 2014 2 Comments

British artist, painter and sculptor Patrick Woodroffe died on May 10, 2014 due to a short illness according to family and friends. Known throughout the…

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The Delicious Dark World of Peter Hammill and Gary Lucas

TJ Nelson April 13, 2014 No Comments

Peter Hammill and Gary Lucas Other World (Cherry Red Records, 2014) At first listen the slide down the rabbit hole of Peter Hammill and Gary…

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Stylish And Striking Jimmy Herring

TJ Nelson May 21, 2013 No Comments

Jimmy Herring Subject to Change Without Notice (Abstract Logix, 2013) If all you guitar fanatics haven’t gotten the memo, guitarist Jimmy Herring has a new…

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Progressive Rock Gift Guide

TJ Nelson December 10, 2012 No Comments

Progressive Rock Central brings you a gift guide for fans of progressive rock. We’ve found a boatload of new goodies, as well as some old…

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Driving Towards the Daylight

TJ Nelson June 30, 2012 No Comments

Joe Bonamassa Driving Towards the Daylight (J & R Adventures, 2012) Be prepared because Joe Bonamassa’s latest recording Driving Towards the Daylight is a right…

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