Everything old is not quite new again on Joey DeFrancesco’s forthcoming Wonderful! Wonderful!, though I found myself disarmed nevertheless by this album’s old-school charms. You May Also Like: Joey DeFrancesco, with Pharoah Sanders – ‘In the Key of the Universe’ (2019) Larry Coryell – ‘Last Swing With Ireland’ (2021)

Charlie Gathe wrote and recorded all of these songs, all by himself. In this way, the stirring desire for connection found on Win the Day makes sense. But the album doesn’t play like a conversation held all alone You May Also Like: No related posts.

Jeremy Spencer, the Fleetwood Mac alum, has found inspiration in working with new voices, old masters and his own muse — creating an album of intimate, handmade joys that moves confidently from blues to Americana to rootsy pop. You May Also Like: No related posts.

This belated Top 10 hit was so unsettling as to stand apart from anything Art Garfunkel ever did as part of Simon and Garfunkel.

For One Who Waits, the followup to guitarist Mitch Seidman’s Triangulation, begins with a series of undulating fills from drummer Claire Arenius – an early indication of the collaborative nature of the album. You May Also Like: Of All the Tom Waits Albums, ‘Real Gone’ May Be the Tom Waits-iestRead More

Robert Cray’s records are fun to listen to, and perhaps none more – certainly for guitar fans – than this one.

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Ry Cooder has a way with words, a way with song. He can catch a nasty groove, and toss off a ripped-from-the-headlines insult like nobody this side of Bob Dylan. Who can forget the way he cuffed around unscrupulous bankers last year? You May Also Like: Ry Cooder’s ‘The UFORead More

Inspirational without feeling like a too-easy bromide, Tim Finn’s free download “People Like Us” urges us, gently but insistently, toward contentment with what’s left in our lives. It’s a big message, but compressed into a magisterial, piano-driven storyline, rather than ballooned into your average 21st century anthem-rocker. The temptation onRead More

Lucio Rubino has already matured through a few musical lives: Touring keyboardist with Flock of Seagulls. Hot young modern rocker signed to EMI. Top Christian act. The one he seems more interested in now? Husband and father. You May Also Like: T. Rex, the Monkees, Tame Impala, Whitesnake, Toto +Read More