The Mike Duke Project
In a business that can often be cruel and uncaring, it’s reassuring to find an album like Mike Duke’s. The title is certainly no overstatement. It took forty years to … Read more
Posted in October, 2019
Helene Cronin
There’s some of Gretchen Peters’ darkness and incisive poetry in Helene Cronin’s terrific debut, and that alone should be more than enough for singer-songwriter fans to give Cronin their attention. … Read more
Goodbye….Ginger Baker
Ginger Baker, the outrageously talented drummer and equally outrageously volcanic human being, died at age 80 in Canterbury, England. Given Baker’s devil-may-care attitude toward health and drugs, some might say … Read more
Exclusive: Photographers’ Show & Tell
They’ve covered the concerts you saw and the ones you missed. The short list of artists these two music photographers have shot (Henry Diltz: The Doors, Eagles, James Taylor, Linda … Read more
Commander Cody and His Western Planet Airmen
Commander Cody has returned from the ozone with three other musicians he calls his Western Airmen to rock again in a way that made his live shows legendary among fans … Read more
Jeb Loy Nichols and the Westwood All-Stars
Find the coziest spot in your living room, or better yet, an outdoor porch if the climate allows. Pour beverage of choice. Put your damn phone away (this part is … Read more
Whiskey Myers
Whiskey Myers is the fifth release from an eponymous six-piece, rock-blues band that positively boils with hard-nosed, in-your-face, hard-edged rock music. This ain’t an album for the faint-hearted. Nor is it … Read more
The Hangmen
The Hangmen somehow escaped the noose. Dealt a bad hand as major label deals with Capitol and then Nirvana’s old home, DGC Records, went south fast, the dark country-punk legends … Read more
Rich Willey’s Boptism Funk Band
Trumpeter and composer Rich Willey has been busy lately. Just a few months ago, he issued his big band album Down & Dirty, and now follows that up with this … Read more
HeavyDrunk
Just the thought of Holy Water suggests everything right. Leader Rob Robinson christened his nine-piece Nashville-based ensemble after he heard that blues luminary Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown referred to someone as … Read more
