In Heavy Rotation: Catching Up on the Blues
A sextet of 2024 blues releases new to our pages and worthy of widespread admiration...
Larry Klein
DEEP ROOTS ALBUMS OF THE YEAR, 2022
Honors for 2022 go to JOHN PRIMER, MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY & RYAN MURPHEY, RORY BLOCK, THE TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS, CORKY SIEGEL'S CHAMBER BLUES and six others.
A Man and A Woman
MELODY GARDOT and pianist PHILIPPE POWELL meets outside the frame and make beautiful music together on ENTRE EUX DEUX
Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing
Herein a dozen smokey, sensuous and often ambivalent discourses on love and passion delivered with the breathy tenderness and sublime understatement of someone defining love not as a many-splendored thing, but rather as a many-splintered thing. Melody Gardot returns.
The Mystery Endures
MELODY GARDOT's brilliant CURRENCY OF MAN, finds this unique artist on intimate terms with 'chaos at any moment.' Dark, but empathetic, the new CD is all that, and more.