Here’s a review of Kenny Shanker’s Action City, a perfect blend of top-notch composing and refined musicianship.

The Beatles’ often-overlooked “Dig a Pony” is a classic example of John Lennon’s love of wordplay.

‘It’s Psychedelic Baby’ goes against the grain at a time when physical magazines are disappearing.

Dave Holland and Kenny Barron sound like two players finishing one another sentences — despite small but important differences in dialect.

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.

Rory Block returns to a well of some two dozen haunting, unequivocal and profound blues songs recorded by Skip James for Paramount in 1931.

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

Texas Hippie Coalition will always have difficulty topping ‘Peacemaker,’ but ‘Ride On’ still has its moments.

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

You got to come on, man, and take a piece of Mr. Nathan Parker Smith’s band.