The Music Industry, Such as It Is…
So this is what A&R has come to? Someone taking English lessons from Beyonce?
Softly, As She Leaves Us
Style and Substance: Remembering EYDIE GORME + a potpourri of her essential recordings
There Goes the Sun
The 'lost' album from ARTHUR 'BIG BOY' CRUDUP's 1969 Delmark trifecta, SUNNY DAY, may have a placid surface, but things are roiling underneath. The road ain't so sunny.
Engaging the Heart
Ace guitarist AMOS GARRETT gathers his Jazz Trio together for a scintillating outing on JazzBlues in which he channels his inner Maurice Chevalier.
Love or Chicken, It’s Tasty
You might say stellar guitarist-singer-songwriter BILL KIRCHEN lights it up on his new album, Seeds and Steams. Or you might also say SEEDS AND STEMS
Bill Kirchen
Proper Records
“Get outta my way you small town clowns/this country boy, he’s come to town”
So begins stellar guitarist-singer-songwriter Bill Kirchen’s…
Then and Now, Now and Then
Something old, something new, something borrowed and a whole lotta blues, boogie and country recommend the autobiographical PIANOGRAPHY from the master of the honky tonk 88s, EARL POOLE BALL.
Angels and Demons
Angels and Demons: TOO SLIM AND THE TAILDRAGGERS are back with vengeance on BLUE HEART. Nothing much is at stake her, other than Slim's soul.
For Sale: Wounded Knee; Johnny Depp, Grandstander; Chief Red Cloud, 93, Walks On
WOUNDED KNEE for sale? JOHNNY DEPP grandstands about buying it and returning it to the Tribe, but it's only noise; remembering CHIEF OLIVER RED CLOUD
Down and Dirty Strings
On his Stringtet's new album, In the Gallery, composer/guitarist JASON SEED, unites classical players, jazz freedom and imaginary folk music. Jason explains it all in our interview.
Bach by Thile (Not Thile Does Bach)
It was inevitable: after flirting with Bach for his entire professional career, CHRIS THILE has released a solo album of the Baroque giant's Sonatas & Partitas. Reviewer CHRSITINE N. LAYTON hails it as a big winner.