Album Reviews

Drive-By Truckers

This, a three disc set of live recordings over one weekend at the Fillmore West, is the penultimate Drive-by Truckers package, a career spanning collection of many of the best … Read more

Steve Martin and Edie Brickell

When you were once known as the goofball who donned a fake arrow through the head, serenaded under the guise of King Tut and uttered the dopey exclamation “Excuuuuuuuuse me,” … Read more

The Foreign Resort

The Foreign Resort’s new EP, The American Dream, finds its way somewhere between the music of the ’80s and the sentiment of today, and to top it all off, Mikkel … Read more

Peter Frampton

When you had one of the best selling albums of all time — in this case, Frampton Comes Alive — and it’s well over twenty years since you celebrated the … Read more

Ferris & The Wheels

This is the perfect album people who are sick of “hipster” music, trying so hard to be cool. Ferris & the Wheels are a group of guys who aren’t afraid … Read more

Clarence “The Blues Man” Turner

DC favorite, Clarence Turner, is a multi-instrumentalist who can get folks dancing to his straight-ahead guitar-driven, horn-infused blues. On this, his second release, Turner plays a tasteful guitar and handles … Read more

Duke Robillard

Founder of the swinging Roomful Of Blues, a rocking Pleasure King and a high-flying Fabulous Thunderbird for a spell. A jazz man, a front porch pickin’ blues man and one-time … Read more

The Cox Family

A picture’s worth a thousand words. If that old adage is anywhere near on the money, these 270 words can’t possibly do justice to the twelve scenes painted on Gone … Read more

The Knickerbockers

Four CD’s representing a band that only managed one bonafide hit single over the course of their career might seem to some a bit superfluous, and indeed it’s hard to … Read more

City and Colour

Anyone who has been anxiously awaiting the arrival of If I Should Go Before You after hearing lead track, “Woman,” will be pleased to know the wait was worth it. … Read more