Kicking It Up a Notch (or Two, or…)
KENNY 'BLUES BOSS' WAYNE comes out rockin' and rarely lets up on GO, JUST DO IT! In a…
Category: Spotlight Album
Deep Roots Magazine’s Spotlight Album
Being About the Needed Balance of Persistence and Faith
Like a bridge over troubled waters, ROD McCORMACK's FINGERPRINTS offers safe passage through perilous times--an instant classic of…
Standing on Big Shoulders
From Robert Johnson to the present day, SPECIAL CONSENSUS celebrates the Windy City's musical legacy on their 45th…
Fashioning a More Thoughtful World
Scottish classical guitarist SEAN SHIBE, playing with lovely clarity and thoughtfulness, adds his own innate sense of the…
‘I Just Can’t Let Us Forget’
Continuing her 'lifetime retrospective' project, RORY BLOCK pays glorious tribute to some outstanding female blues artists of yore,…
Believe
Being about the moment and the moment far ahead, BILL CURRERI's HARD ROAD HOME sends a message of…
In Praise of the Torch Holder
In his second solo outing, JUNIOR SISK honors Polonius's advice: "To thine own self be true." In doing…
Going to the Head of the Traditional Class
Staunch traditionalist with a honky-tonk bent, the PO' RAMBLIN' BOYS are set to go to the head of…
The Cummings Imperative
The first outstanding blues album of 2020 comes in the form of ALBERT CUMMINGS's BELIEVE, a tour de…
A New Opera for the 21st Century Canon, By Way of Willa Cather
WILLA CATHER'S short story 'Paul's Place' has been transformed into an opera event by GREGORY SPEARKS and KATHRYN…