Album Reviews

Michael Johnathon

A true artist, Michael Johnathon is always creating unique projects to present to his fans. The Painter is a perfect example of this; Johnathon recorded the album after completing 43 … Read more

Mick Fleetwood & Friends

For the vast majority of us, a mere mention of the name Fleetwood Mac summons the melody of “Go Your Own Way,” “Rhiannon,” or another of the snappy tunes associated … Read more

Badfinger

Joey Molland and Badfinger still have friends in high places, just as they did when they enjoyed the backing of The Beatles and Apple Records before everything went sideways. Happily … Read more

Michael Whalen

The jazz fusion of tomorrow is here today via Michael Whalen’s innovative Future Shock, also the title of Alvin Toffler’s 1970 best-seller about psychologically drowning in a swift-moving current of … Read more

Carl Verheyen Sundial

Membership in the mid-1980s version of Supertramp, then attempting to carry on without Roger Hodgson, had its privileges for Carl Verheyen. Hired to go on tour with the proggy pop-rock … Read more

Lisa Jeanette

Jellyfish on the Moon is a folk album loosely inspired by NASA’s experiments on the effects of a zero gravity atmosphere on jellyfish, a concept I found too intriguing to … Read more

Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band

Money’s tight for the mighty Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band on Dance Songs for Hard Times, the lively new album of galvanizing electric blues from the burly, fingerstyle guitar dynamo … Read more

Tomislav Goluban

Consider Express Connection a sequel to Memphis Light for Croatian Tomislav “Little Pigeon” Goluban as he returns to Memphis to record at the famed Ardent Studios. He plays with some … Read more

Dale Ann Bradley

I’m not a regular listener of bluegrass music, but certainly own my fair share of it, as well as new grass, which at 40+ years old, really can’t wear that … Read more

Fred Mollin (with his friends)

“I Kid You Not.” Jack Parr, pioneer icon of the Tonight Show, would say that so many times that he wrote a book about it. When I say that this … Read more