Brandy Clark is a country music treasure. She’s a stellar songwriter – one of the best in the business – and her vocals harken back to the ’90s greats like Trisha Yearwood and Martina McBride. She’s not afraid to hide […]
Brandy Clark is a country music treasure. She’s a stellar songwriter – one of the best in the business – and her vocals harken back to the ’90s greats like Trisha Yearwood and Martina McBride. She’s not afraid to hide […]
Though Tusk received generally positive reviews when it appeared in 1979, the prevailing view seems to be that it paled alongside its huge-selling immediate predecessors, 1975’s Fleetwood Mac and 1977’s Rumours. The consensus was that Lindsey Buckingham had taken over […]
The challenge, it seems, in reviewing Accelerate is to focus on the music, not merely the context surrounding the album — whether that context is its meekly received predecessor, the ennui of the band’s post-Bill Berry era, or the disc’s […]
Because he writes mostly character-driven songs, it’s difficult to know just how much Mark Knopfler imbues a painter who lusts after more vivid colors in “Let It All Go” with his own attitudes and attributes. Yet it’s easy to read […]
Though he didn’t always get his due, Lindsey Buckingham was the musical genius who made Fleetwood Mac commercially viable, a master of pop hooks and arrangements. His talent becomes most apparent when listening to its absence from the solo work […]
Perhaps the highest compliment that could be bestowed on this record is that if you didn’t know about Mark Knopfler’s Dire Straits days or Emmylou’s Gram Parsons past and subsequent solo flowering, you might well suspect these two have been […]
Among the primary members of Nashville’s so-called Muzik Mafia (which also includes Gretchen Wilson and Big & Rich), Jon Nicholson is the artist whose music is least tethered to a country influence. That doesn’t mean, however, that Nicholson is any […]
The bouncy, bluesy jazz of the first track “Pony” notwithstanding, Wayward Angel finds Kasey Chambers, Australia’s #1 import to Americana music in recent years, working pretty much the same territory as on her first two releases. That’s a good thing, […]
Executive producer Danny Kee — known for his work with Kathie Lee Gifford and Kenny Rogers — got at least one thing right on this sixteen-song tribute: If you’re going to celebrate Bocephus with the worst of his catalog, you […]
Mark Knopfler’s often beautiful and affecting third solo album is about exile. It’s not about the exile forced by war or famine, but by the natural progression of ordinary life. “Why Aye Man”, the opening tune, could have anchored a […]
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