Sometimes the best roads are the ones that lead us back home. After a 30 year odyssey that has taken him through the multi-colored world of pop super stardom, as one half of the popular duo, Hall & Oates, John […]
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A dad who doesn’t like the commercialization of Christmas and resists decorating the house. A ten-year-old longing to spend the holiday with his singing grandpa. The memory of a fatal ice-skating accident. A mysterious, benevolent, white-bearded man who bestows gifts […]
As a follow-up to my summer post, the 25th anniversary re-release of Lucinda Williams’ Rough Trade Album is set for January 14, 2014 on Lucinda Williams Music/Thirty Tigers Records. The two-disc reissue features remastered versions taken from the original analog […]
Van Morrison had already attracted some attention with Them, scored a hit with “Brown-Eyed Girl” and produced the incredible Astral Weeks by the time he delivered Moondance in 1970. But this was the album that made him a star. It […]
Journeyman singer-songwriter guitarist Eric Bibb and his collaborator Glenn Scott have assembled a wide cast of characters with a colorful palette of sounds to weave the tapestry that is true world music fusion on the new release Jericho Road. The […]
Early ’70s return produced by Swamp Dogg at Quinvy Lightnin’ Slim made his mark as a bluesman in the mid-50s and early 60s with a series of highly regarded releases on Excello. By the time he recorded this 1971 album […]
Extraordinary country, rock, folk and soul If you didn’t know better, but you knew enough to have heard both Greg Trooper and Bob Delevante, you might swear they are brothers from different mothers. Their voices can sound so similar as […]
Its and unashamedly “Medicine Show” Medicine Show this week, we have music from Scott MacDonald, Danny & The Champs, Galipaygoes, Lisa Richards & Drew Landry, all of whom are on the road with the Medicine Show this week, also introducing […]
Ryan Balthrop writes songs about the after life, respecting the past, social strife, and a dog kept on a running line. His characters leap from trees and into marriage or get dumped at the Greater Gulf State Fair. They find […]
In the final show of Ben Harper’s fall solo acoustic tour, he single handedly brought down the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. One guy. A whole bunch of instruments. A completely rapt (and totally diverse, from race to […]
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