Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis
On their best behavior, Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis get some of that old-time religion via their sunny, buoyant gospel stroll down “On the Jericho Road.” Credited to the … Read more
Album Reviews
Daphne Lee Martin
Daphne Lee Martin’s love life is an open book on Scared Fearless, the luxuriously furnished fifth album of dark, undulating folk and blues elegance from the Connecticut songstress. Laying bare her … Read more
Jack Pearson
To twist a worn-out cliché, if you don’t know Jack Pearson, you don’t know jack—at least as far as consummate guitarists go. Google the YouTube video for Project Yosemite / … Read more
Bruce Katz Band
Keyboardist Bruce Katz defies pigeonholing. The New England Conservatory of Music graduate mixes blues and jazz with adventurous jam-band improvisation. In addition to a six-year stint with the Gregg Allman … Read more
Guadalcanal Diary
Oddballs in a fertile mid-1980s college-rock scene that prized cryptic eccentricity, the wildly original Guadalcanal Diary was largely ignored by the mainstream, unlike fellow Georgians R.E.M. Whatever the reasons why, … Read more
John Batdorf
Almost half a century ago, a wave of new, mainly acoustic music, from quintets, quartets, trios and duos, came out of the Pacific Coast, which just so happened to … Read more
James House
I got my first James House album (on cassette) about 30 years ago, and at that time he was in the rapidly expanding class of Nashville “hat acts.” Although he … Read more
Kevin Gordon
Nashville singer-songwriter Kevin Gordon penned one of the greatest roots songs in the last two decades with his epic “Colfax/Step in Time” from Gloryland. It’s a career defining song that … Read more
Joe Bonamassa
Joe Bonamassa makes concept albums, but not the type we’re accustomed to hearing. His are “themes,” often a double CD with an accompanying DVD. It might be a show with … Read more
Boz Scaggs
“Lido Shuffle” must still pay some decent bills. As slick as the song was in 1976, the bold blue soul always behind it rushes to the fore when Boz Scaggs … Read more
