Album Reviews

Grady Champion

        Before digging into the latest release by Mississippi soul-blues master Grady Champion, a little history lesson is in order. In the early 1980s, the blues was … Read more

Ben Levin

This young college student sounds so good playing the rollicking piano and singing like a veteran that it would be impossible for the uninformed listener to guess that Ben Levin … Read more

Zac Harmon

Under almost any circumstances it was going to be difficult for blues master Zac Harmon to top his 2016 release Right Man Right Place, which featured topical subject matter and … Read more

Steve Goodman

  In 1980, after a decade of circling his recording career wagon in the groove (or is it rut?) of critical but not commercial success with major labels, Steve Goodman, … Read more

Buddy & Julie Miller

The darkness can be a fearful place but sometimes it can be beautiful. I actually was fearful initially of listening to this, as I had heard it was very dark … Read more

Steve Goodman

John Prine, his artistic lifelong friend, cowriter, and other things, recalls the first time he met Steve Goodman face to face. “It was around 1970 in the backroom of The … Read more

Binky Philips and The Planets

Missing from the packaging of Binky Philips and The Planets’ Established 1972 NYC, a smoking slab of rugged, down-and-dirty hard rock, is an expiration date. More than likely, they’ll have … Read more

George Winston

Arriving at a time of socio-political tumult in America, George Winston’s Restless Wind stirs up a storm of unbridled emotions. Traversing the historical landscape of the country’s troubled past while … Read more

Shealee

Gather around everybody. Shealee has the floor on Head to the Stone, a solo album of elegant and richly rendered Americana from the co-founder of acclaimed bluegrass and roots music … Read more

Renaissance

Where so many classic progressive-rock acts went on to become iconic names in later decades, Renaissance still somehow glided under the radar and stayed obscure even in that esoteric corner … Read more