Bernie Marsden’s blues-soaked collaboration with David Coverdale recalls their earlier connections to Deep Purple’s more R&B-focused 1970s era.

Cat Stevens covers Lead Belly’s dark tale of escape, pointing the way to what could have been a very different career path.

Michael Lynch has given us a great little Halloween tune in “Mr. Monster,” with fierce hook lines and a jiggly, jagged bubblegum beat.

Jerry Garcia returns to the Grateful Dead staple “They Love Each Other” on a new archival release – and we hear this song again, as it once was.

Kami Thompson leads the Thompson family band through a country-pop romp called “Careful.”

Jimmy Barnes is, off these shores anyway, a stone-cold legend — and an all-star cast including Joe Bonamassa, Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain gives him his due here.

‘The New Basement Tapes’ finally live up to their dizzying promise with Rhiannon Giddens’ darkly contoured reading of “Spanish Mary.”

We review David Bowie’s newly released single “Sue,” which finds him once again leaving all possible labels and discriptions behind.

Glen Campbell, stricken with Alzheimer’s, doesn’t shy away from the disease’s brutal realities on “I’m Not Gonna Miss You.”

Simple Minds are back with something unexpected, something personal — and something as involving as anything they’ve ever done.