Album Reviews

Rory Block

Prove It On Me is the second album in Rory Block’s series honoring female blues artists. The first release, 2018’s A Woman’s Soul, was a tribute to the great Bessie … Read more

Cindy Cashdollar

You can tell the character of a person by the company she keeps. The same is true of a person’s talents. As one of the finest slide and steel guitarists … Read more

David Clayton-Thomas

An odd opener for such an overtly political and soulful album as Say Somethin’, the autobiographical “Burwash” talks of David Clayton-Thomas’ troubled youth, when he seemed destined to a lifetime … Read more

Alex Dixon

The family business is safe in Alex Dixon’s hands. Grandson of the legendary Willie Dixon, who raised him along with wife Marie in Chicago. Young Alex was home schooled in … Read more

Miles Davis

Last month’s PBS special Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool provided a rare look at one of the 20th century’s most influential jazz masters. There’s now a companion album with … Read more

Harry Chapin

Harry Chapin told stories. In three to six minutes, this multitalented student of the human condition could paint bittersweet portraits so vivid that his characters became recognizable to us all. … Read more

Kate Mills

Madly in love with the sounds of the late-1960s, early-‘70s Laurel Canyon scene, Kate Mills taps into the natural, folk-rock grace and warm passion of its most famous artists in … Read more

King Solomon Hicks

When this writer first heard of King Solomon Hicks, he was described as “sings like Sam Cooke and plays guitar like B.B. King.” Yikes, those were lofty accolades for the … Read more

Chris Maxwell

Welding together experimental junk-rock sculptures out of a messy garage full of industrial noise, strident funk and buzz saws of cutting, angular guitars, New York’s Skeleton Key somehow unlocked the … Read more