The Angels Listened In
It's been a long, hard climb back to the active list for JAMES ARMSTRONG following a 1996 home…
Category: Reviews
From Any Angle, It’s Still the Blues
BLUESMAN and former boxer GRADY CHAMPION is launching his new label with strong albums from his first signings:…
Rhonda’s Revenge
Though she says it was inspired by George Jones, Rhonda Vincent's ONLY ME, a double-CD release containing one…
An On-Time Messenger for the Lord
It takes no special insight to point out the kinship of blues and gospel but 81-year-old LEO 'BUD'…
‘There Is a Great Desire in All Souls for What Is Good and Beautiful’
The BENEDICTINES OF MARY, QUEEN OF APOSTLES are back with another moving seasonal epistle to follow last year's…
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
No longer incommunicado, BILL POWERS and SHELLEY GRAY are back with some friends as HONEY DON'T. The group's…
EPs of the Year 2013
Our first-ever citations of the Best EPs we received in 2013--an Elite Four, you might say.
2013’s Elite Half-Hundred – Part II
Part II of 50 keepers from the year since passed: Selections include albums by CLAIRE LYNCH, FRANK SOLIVAN…
2013’s Elite Half-Hundred – Part I
Selections 1-25 of the 2013 Elite Half Hundred include THE BENEDICTINES OF MARY, QUEEN OF APOSTLES, STEEP CANYON…
A Gene Kelly ‘Omnibus’
In 1958 the distinguished Omnibus series commissioned GENE KELLY's first TV special. For the first time since its…