A Perfectly Good Guitar, by Chuck Holley
This is a book of remarkable stories as told by a wide range of artists about their guitars (Roseanne Cash, Marty Stuart, Jorma Kaukonen, Bill Frisell, Waddy Wachtel, Cindy Cashdollar, GE … Read more
Reviews
Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm
It hardly seems possible that 31 years have gone by since Robert Cray took the world by storm with his 1986 Strong Persuader. Around that same time I recall interviewing … Read more
Jenny Scheinman
You can always count on the next Jenny Scheinman album to be quite different from its predecessor. In 2008 she issued both her purely jazz-classical instrumental, Crossing the Field, as … Read more
Van Morrison
Van the Man’s latest is far from that; instead it’s a huge, engrossing, triple album release that features loads of material that reaches way back in time, a back-back-catalogue … Read more
Christian Sands
Pianist Christian Sands offers up a Mack Avenue Records debut, Reach, featuring a musical influence and style range from Afro-Cuban beats to hip-hop, to thumps, to dirty blues with authority. … Read more
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Thankfully Trombone Shorty’s Blue Note debut does not mark a change in sound, but in fact reads like a sequel to his highly acclaimed Verve release, Say That to This. … Read more
Amilia K Spicer
Spicer is a multi-instrumentalist and a crafty singer-songwriter who has spent over a decade as a film director. After two albums released in 2000 and 2003, Spicer returns with a … Read more
Kenny George Band
Hailing from Aiken, SC, the Kenny George Band plays mostly vintage country rock . This, their third album, should thrust them into the national spotlight. Inspired by the early Americana … Read more
David Starr
We don’t normally review EPs, but rules are made to be broken—that’s a founding concept of rock ‘n’ roll, BTW—and not a jury in the world would convict us in … Read more
