Classic Rock

ROUND-UP: BLUES

George Benson

Walking To New Orleans PROVOGUE/MASCOT

Under normal circumstances, nothing screams ‘creative stasis’ like an older man penning love letters to the music of his youth. George Benson is different. The jazz great showed with 2013’s tribute to Nat King Cole

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