Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani seems as though he’s in a time capsule, except we’ve been digging him up every few years since the mid ’80s. His sound basically has not changed at … Read more
Album Reviews
The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band
What are you waiting for? The band’s name and album title alone make this worth a listen. But ultimately, the sounds are what you’re here for on Lester’s Loafin Lounge. … Read more
Jeffrey Foucault
There’s a mesmerizing, kind of dusky, stark, but natural and engaging sound when Jeffrey Foucault and guitarist Bo Ramsey get together. The two Midwesterners first plied this bluesy dual guitar … Read more
Denny Lile
Denny Lile’s story is so tortuously tragic that it demands curiosity about the brilliant music he made at the young age of 22. Lile was a regional legend from Louisville, … Read more
McClain Sullivan
Sweeeet Sweet McClain Sullivan! The world deserves to be blessed by your charming and eloquent style. The Seattle–turned–Brooklyn singer/songwriter is a complete multifaceted guru of soul, r&b, jazz and funk. … Read more
Sam Butler
To borrow a phrase from Van Morrison, “a rough God goes riding here.” This is not the traditional gospel often associated with the Blind Boys of Alabama, for whom Sam … Read more
The Reverend Shawn Amos
This is a guy who sure knows how to rock; a blues-sailor riding the storm, switching from gospel through R&B rocky-torrents to pretty straight, full-on modern blues, with both eyes … Read more
Steppenwolf
One of the many calamities of the robotically insidious classic rock format is that most of today’s listeners who aren’t deaf or dead know Steppenwolf for only two songs (both … Read more
A.J. Croce
In a prescient move, Compass Records has re-mastered A.J. Croce’s sophomore recording That’s Me In The Bar, twenty years after the album reached the Top 10 on the U.S. Blues … Read more
Izzy Young
This DVD is a recent release of a docu-film originally recorded by a Swedish crew back in the mists of the late 1980s. As such, it has loads of evocative, … Read more
