Released 10 years ago today, ‘Bad As Me’ delivered a set of short but focused songs that spanned a wide range of Tom Waits-isms, both old and new.

Jim Pembroke is lost, but thankfully not without a trace. Here’s an appreciation of this legend from the Finnish prog band Wigwam, written “in gratitude.”

Two different people constructed Yes’ “The Western Edge” from two different ideas while working in two different places. What could go wrong?

My hesitancy with songs from ‘Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly Live’ is that it seems almost pointless to re-record a perfect album.

I love the country/rock mixture of this Chicago song. Collaborating with Rascal Flatts in the studio helped take “Long Lost Friend” to another level.

Marco Mattei’s ‘Out of Control’ is an ever-delightful roulette spin through the countless creative personalities that found voice in the colorful ’70s.

‘Village Mothership’ is not merely Whit Dickey, William Parker and Matthew Shipp going off to their corners doing their own thing, these are three strongly distinct musical personalities able to interlock with each other while unconsciously maintaining their identities.

Illinois Speed Press arrived with some key Chicago-related connections. Their claim to fame, however, was setting the stage for Poco.

Here is “You Gotta Know,” the soulful vocal debut of the superb jazz pianist and composer Kait Dunton.

Yes has finally come to grips with the idea of making an album without Chris Squire. But can they avoid repeating the mistakes of 2014’s ‘Heaven and Earth’?