Sugar Ray and the Bluetones
Sugar Ray and the Bluetones are on a roll, 35 years on. Their 2014 album, Living Tear to Tear, earned them a staggering seven Blues Music Award nominations, including “Best … Read more
Reviews
Steve Heckman
Admittedly, tribute discs, albums, downloads, streams, whatever, tend to scare me off. And a tribute to Coltrane, whose lasting innovations and overly documented musical explorations and phases just opens a … Read more
Shovels & Rope
Fifth time’s certainly the charm, but there are four previous Shovels & Rope albums that display a steady progression of exciting, idiosyncratic excellence. Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, the … Read more
Murali Coryell
Murali Coryell takes a slightly different tact with this effort, recorded in Austin, TX and replete with some Tex-Mex touches and political references too. Self-produced, Murali is increasingly taking more … Read more
Takuya Kuroda
Takuya Kuroda doesn’t seem content to play in just one sandbox. The title, Zigzagger, hints that we’re dealing with an unrelentingly restless spirit here, and his fifth album backs it up … Read more
Music Midtown Festival
Photos by Kalyn Oyer As I entered Piedmont Park on Saturday, I enjoyed the sweet serenades of City and Colour from afar… this was my second Music Midtown encounter, my last … Read more
Tom Jones
All Photos by Ehud Lazin Drums and guitar played alone on a darkened stage as Tom Jones entered, singing John Lee Hooker’s “Burning Hell.” At 76, he looked trim in … Read more
Si Cranstoun
Classic soul fans are quickly catching on to the sixth CD by British singer/songwriter Si Cranstoun, an Old School where dancing is everyone’s major. Heavily influenced by 1950s and 1960s … Read more
Bruce Springsteen
For his 67th birthday, Bruce drops the audio companion to his upcoming memoir Born To Run. Yes, there are five pre-Columbia, pre-sainthood tracks kicking off what at first appears like … Read more
