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
Reviews
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
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
John Mayall
Well, John Mayall has done it to me again. About ten seconds into the first song, “Mother In Law Blues,” he had me drumming my fingers and tapping my toes. … Read more
Rick Springfield
Photos by Laura Sedor On a beautiful fall-like evening, Rick Springfield and opening acts Loverboy and the Romantics played Chicago’s FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island. While the Romantics … Read more
