Jon Pousette-Dart
One of the nearly forgotten heroes of the northeastern folk rock scene, once so prevalent in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, Jon Pousette-Dart mined the same musical environs as … Read more
Album Reviews
Simon & Garfunkel
Wow. One of the most beautiful box sets ever, Columbia has released all five of Simon & Garfunkel’s original albums (and the sixth, a Greatest Hits) on 180-gram vinyl, not … Read more
Elephant Revival
Among the many promising bands at the heart of the American roots music scene, there can be no question that Elephant Revival deserves to be at the very top of … Read more
Watkins Family Hour
There’s nothing like a family reunion to rekindle the binding ties of hearth and home and bring the kinfolk closer. That’s the sense one gets in listening to the easy, … Read more
Carl Hall
Soul man—no, not a blues brother, but a brother with blues—singer/songwriter Carl Hall brings a strenuous inflection of soul to the tracks on You Don’t Know Nothing About Love: The Loma/Atlantic … Read more
Ted Drozdowski’s Scissormen
Drozdowski’s Scissormen cut through the bullshit. They shred it really, with a contemporary cosmic blues drenched in reverb and the dark bayou demons that inhabit each day. Like the Mississippi, … Read more
Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters
Signing on with Roomful Of Blues in 1979, guitarist Ronnie Earl went on to slip a fine steely edge between the jump and the swing of America’s premier big band … Read more
Continental Drifters
Back in the 1990s, for the longest time, the only way to hear this wonderful band was to see them live. For many years, those in the know were calling … Read more
James Taylor
Five-time Grammy Award winner James Taylor‘s Before This World represents the legendary singer/songwriter’s first album of new songs since 2002’s platinum-selling October Road. With the help of a couple of friends (Yo-Yo … Read more
The Lucky Losers
Two veteran California blues artists have teamed up to bring back the blues duet. Their appeal is so packed with honest emotion that you can practically see them. Phil Berkowitz … Read more
