Preston Frazier’s Best of 2023 Rock and Pop list includes Steve Lukather, Yes, Downes Braide Association, Derek Sherinian and Simon Phillips, and others.

Rickie Lee Jones, Alexis Evans, Shawn Maxwell and others are part of the latest edition of Five for the Road, an occasional look at music that’s been in my car lately.

Released 30 years ago this week, ‘Flying Cowboys’ marked another left turn in Rickie Lee Jones’ career.

Is this the best Rickie Lee Jones album of covers? No, but it is always engaging and occasionally compelling.

A thread involving Donald Fagen and Walter Becker runs through this look at the albums that have been in my car recently.

‘Jimmy Choos,’ the lead track off the first album of original Rickie Lee Jones material in 10 years, sounds both familiar and different.

With Billy Childs’ ‘Map to the Treasure: Reimaging Laura Nyro,’ it looks like my best albums of 2014 list just got longer.

We find a wide diversity of artists applying a wide diversity of styles.