The WRD is Robert Walter, Eddie Roberts, Adam Deitch, and though there aren’t any words sung on ‘The Hit,’ there are bountiful hand-made grooves.

‘Third Impression’ is less a direct extension of Robert Berry’s earlier 3-related projects, and more a solo album following in their footsteps.

To quote Mark Twain, Israel Nash’s ‘Topaz’ is a “barrel of odds and ends,” spinning in a cosmic folky and sometimes soulful space.

The reflective “Smoke From the Chimney” is an advance single from the late Tony Joe White’s upcoming Dan Auerbach-produced album.

“It’s a Sad Thing” is a crunchy new blues original by Boo Boo Davis and the ElectroBluesSociety.

Rather than trying to sound exactly like the inspiration, ‘Fanfare For the Uncommon Man: The Official Keith Emerson Tribute Concert’ takes a personal tack.

We’ve long known that guitar ace Wayne Krantz is really good, and now with ‘Music Room 1985’ we know that he was really good at the get-go.

Dan Wilson, Maximo Park, Benjamin Lazar Davis are part of the latest edition of Five for the Road, an occasional look at music that’s been in my car lately.

The Sails are quite the rage across the pond, and ‘Bang!: The Sails Best of 2006 to 2020’ provides the reason why.

‘A Wizard, a True Star … Live!’ begs two questions: Does anybody besides Todd Rundgren completists need it, and will it satisfy that audience?