“Modern Blue” takes Rosanne Cash on a twilit journey across the world of passion before returning to a soft landing in the endlessly evocative American South. You May Also Like: How Johnny Cash’s ‘Hundred Highways’ Kept Adding to His Remarkable Legacy

Old lions — namely Wayne Shorter, Boz Scaggs and James Cotton — certainly roared in 2013, putting out some of the most vital, present music of their careers. You May Also Like: Jerry Granelli, feat. Bill Frisell and Robben Ford – Dance Hall (2017) Boz Scaggs – Out Of TheRead More

Recorded live at the peak of their powers in May 1974, ‘Hipper than Hip’ finds Tower of Power setting a Long Island radio-station soundstage ablaze.

That Sluggo! — perhaps Mike Keneally’s first, best album of real songcraft — came together at all, considering the circumstances, remains something of a miracle. You May Also Like: Mike Keneally, “Draconian Blump” from ‘Nonkertompf’ (1999): One Track Mind How Mike Keneally’s Comeback on ‘The Universe Will Provide’ Fulfilled AllRead More

This acoustic offering, remastered and packaged together with a new concert tribute to Ronnie Montrose, offers an opportunity for quiet reflection on the guitarist’s lost genius. You May Also Like: Ronnie Lane, Joost Maglev, Patrice Jegou + Others: Five For the Road

The Band is revealed in all of its muscular, almost (but never completely) out-of-control on-stage glory — bolstered, in a meeting of musical worlds, by these stabbing horn charts from Allen Toussaint. You May Also Like: Jethro Tull – ‘The Zealot Gene’ (2022)

Cassie Taylor brings the same sort of hard-bitten focus on truth telling, and the same frisky sense of experimentation, that’s surrounded her father Otis’ work. You May Also Like: No related posts.

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Vangelis is that rarest of soundtrack artists, one who can create not just involving themes but complete musical worlds that stand apart from the films.

David Paich has been involved with his share of million-selling projects, from Michael Jackson’s Thriller to Boz Scaggs’ Silk Degrees to Toto’s IV. There’s a similar atmosphere surrounding Nathan East’s forthcoming first-ever solo studio effort You May Also Like: Toto’s David Paich on His Solo Debut, ‘Forgotten Toys’: Something Else!Read More