The
Palm Beach Post
Special
to The Palm
Beach Post
My
favorite local 2014 CDs, in popular music and
beyond
7:00
a.m. Friday,
Dec. 19, 2014
My
picks
for the top CDs by area artists in 2014:
Best
Pop/Rock
CD/Album of the Year: “Later That
Night”
by Rod MacDonald (rodmacdonald.net).
Some
of MacDonald’s best releases feature serious subject matter, but this
one
is lighter. Sure, the ballad “Many Can’t Be Moved” boldly addresses the
2012
Newtown school shooting, yet topics from religion (“Hole in the Bible”)
to
politics (“Young Republicans in Love”) get treated humorously.
Bassist/guitarist Mark Dann, keyboardist Professor Louie, banjoist Mike
Merenda
and drummer Dan Hickey also help him break new ground on the
zydeco-influenced
“Don’t Come Knocking.”
See
Rod
MacDonald with George Goehring, Nicole Yarling and Ellen Bukstel in “My
Life in the Brill Building” at 7 p.m. on Sunday at the Arts Garage, 180
NE
First St., Delray Beach ($25-35, 561-450-6357), and at 8 p.m. on Dec. 26
at The
Living Room, 1709 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach (561-742-4399).