Album Reviews

Glen Campbell

Arriving in the midst of Glen Campbell’s well documented battle with Alzheimer’s — so thoroughly and poignantly documented in the award winning film “I’ll Be Me” — this archival concert, … Read more

Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis turns 80 this year, but his voice and music are ageless. One of the greatest vocalists of our time—I include Sinatra, Streisand, Mercury and Franklin—Mathis has sold 17 … Read more

Jim Lauderdale

Two-time Grammy-winning singer and master songwriter Jim Lauderdale dropped his customary country and bluegrass sides to shows his innovative chops with either a double album or two very different single … Read more

Widespread Panic

Four years after they formed in Athens, Georgia in 1986, Widespread Panic released their second album on the reactivated Capricorn Records label, a Southern rock cornerstone. Universally acclaimed, Widespread Panic … Read more

Webb Wilder

Previous Webb Wilder releases never grabbed me the way this one does, as he synthesizes the core elements of blues, rockabilly and flat out rock n’ roll into one irresistible … Read more

Los Lobos

What is it about Los Lobos? Well, for forty-two years down a zigzagging, consistently fascinating road, the band remains a group of brilliant multi-instrumentalists and singers: David Hidalgo, Louie Perez … Read more

Patty Griffin

With Servant Of Love, Patty delivers a highly introspective album that began to take shape as she marked her 50th birthday. While introspection is certainly one of her hallmarks, there … Read more

Santana & McLaughlin

Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin. Their names together connote the Everest of jazz fusion guitar. This concert at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival was their first long-form collaboration since the … Read more

Dave Davies

“There is madness here!” shouted a spunky Dave Davies at a concert in New York City last November. What followed wasn’t exactly madness, but it was energetic and rife with … Read more

Aerosmith, Aerosmith Rocks Donington

Aerosmith

Ah Donington. Metal’s Mount Olympus. The Reservoir of Rock. It’s incumbent on any band worth its weight in heavy metal to play the place and prove its worthiness as to … Read more