Sense and Sensibility
On COMMON SENSE GARY NICHOLSON makes good trouble and good sense in taking the measure of our times in his wise, wry and witty news songs
Reviews
In Heavy Rotation: Catching Up on the Blues
A sextet of 2024 blues releases new to our pages and worthy of widespread admiration...
All the Beauty Within
On his latest memorable album, MICHAEL DINALO celebrates nature and other meaningful matters.
The Force is With Them
DAVE STRYKER and arranger-conductor BRENT WALLARAB play it again, Sam, in an album of movie themes.
Of the Human Heart in Full
THE TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS return with a 'contemporary folk album' that explores the heart in full.
The Deep Roots Elite Half-Hundred, 2024 Edition
The Best of the Rest: Fifty albums that made life worth living in 2024. Blues, bluegrass, Classical, jazz, classic pop, gospel in the house.
Elevating Harmony
On his new symphonic blues-classical hybrid album project, CORKY SIEGEL elevates harmony--musical, inner, social.
It Takes Two…
Two great Christmas albums emerged in 1964, and one of the artists in question did it again in '69.
In Heavy Rotation: Songwriters & Songs
Singers and their songs (some original, some covers): LANCE COWAN, GRAYSON CAPPS and ARLEN ROTH.
In Heavy Rotation: Really the Blues
A quintet of impressive new blues albums from seasoned vets.