With so many major releases typically timed go on sale to take advantage of the holiday shopping season, you’d think that most of the choicest music of any given year are records issued during the September-November timeframe. You May Also Like: Robben Ford’s Tasty, Energetic ‘Soul on Ten’ Reframed HisRead More
With the Grammy-winning debut Revelator and the double-disc modern-day Live At Fillmore East road epic Everybody’s Talkin’, the Tedeschi Trucks Band quickly established themselves as arguably the best seventies band four decades hence You May Also Like: Susan Tedeschi’s Varied ‘Back to the River’ Set the Stage for Greatness DerekRead More
“I’m the only one who does what I do,” says Robert Randolph matter-of-factly, and anyone even only casually familiar with his music know he’s right. You May Also Like: Robert Randolph & the Family Band – Got Soul (2017) Marcus Randolph and My Peeples Peeple – Transplant (2017) Mary HalvorsonRead More
Making an audacious statement like “goin’ down in history, goin’ down in flames,” can mean an act of desperation, going for broke, or just going all in. You May Also Like: Ethan Keller – Dead Man Dancing (2016) Adrian Belew’s ‘Side One’ Was a Journey Through His Rich Musical History
Tommy Malone was not lacking for work as a musician, not with his frontman role in one of the best and beloved roots bands going, the Subdudes. This underrated talent had basically handed his career over to this New Orleans favorite on and off from 1987 until the band wentRead More
Mike Zito’s life has taken him from St. Louis to Key West to southeast Texas. A deeply personal and sincere bluesman, Gone To Texas is Zito speaking — or singing, really both figuratively and literally about his long road to not only redemption, but also outright triumph. You May AlsoRead More
One For Sorrow, Two For Joy is the fifth record by UK/Swedish progateers Thieves’ Kitchen, a band that’s been around since ’99 but hadn’t gotten perhaps the notice here in the States they’ve enjoyed in their local European environs. Here’s a strong bid for wider recognition. You May Also Like:Read More
Hadden Sayers, the hard luck Houston, Texas bluesman, made an inspired comeback after a series of personal setbacks made him all but retire from the music business by the late 2000s. You May Also Like: Rolling Stones – Blue and Lonesome (2016) Robert Randolph & the Family Band – GotRead More
Robben Ford’s most focused, unembellished album in like, forever, may have also been the easiest album the virtuosic blues/jazz/rock/you-name-it guitarist has made in a long spell, too. You May Also Like: How Robben Ford’s ‘The Inside Story’ Introduced the Yellowjackets to the World Robben Ford’s Tasty, Energetic ‘Soul on Ten’Read More
“Buke And Gase” is a two-person outfit as the name implies, all right, but the names pertain to the instruments they play, not the players themselves. You May Also Like: Dan Cavalca – Cinematic (2016) Aram Bajakian – Dolphy Formations (2016) Seth Walker – Gotta Get Back (2016)
