This lead song from ‘Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks’ makes clear the difficulty Joe Bonamassa — really, anybody — has in taking on Muddy Waters.

In the period before Ian Gillan made a long-hoped-for return to Deep Purple, he worked tirelessly. And you had to stay cool while in transit.

The Dead Neanderthals’ thrillingly explorative new album with Nick Millevoi is one to start your heart — to un-relax, un-settle and un-fetter.

A lot seems to happen, but also not much. Is this simply an album intro? A taste of a more free-form direction Florence + the Machine might go?