Reviews

Wee Willie Walker

One small byproduct of the Covid-19 pandemic has been a slight resurgence in soul music, with albums from Sonny Green, Gerald McClendon and Robert Finley, to name just a few. … Read more

Clint Morgan

If one were to try to touch all the Americana bases in just one album, pianist/ songwriter/vocalist Clint Morgan does a commendable job, doing blues, gospel, country, and R&B: everything … Read more

The Brothers

Five and a half years after The Allman Brothers Band played their last concert at New York City’s Beacon Theater, the surviving members of that final lineup regrouped, with a … Read more

Richard Thompson at Free Wednesday

Photographs by Arnie Goodman Richard Thompson performed at the Free Wednesday concert series that will brighten up every Hump Day in Woodbridge through September. Promoter Bill Brandenburg packed the Woodbridge … Read more

The Rubinoos

The Rubinoos had the run of the place, with minimal adult supervision. Entering CBS Studios on Folsom Street in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 1976, the day after Jimmy Carter … Read more

Rod Picott

I only knew of Rod Picott because he wrote and worked with Slaid Cleaves, but that was enough to pique my interest. Wood, Steel, Dust, & Dreams is a collection … Read more

Howard Grimes, with Preston Lauterbach

If there ever was a book that epitomizes the good, bad, and ugly aspects of the burgeoning music business in the ’60s South, it’s Howard Grimes’ memoir, TIMEKEEPER, My Life … Read more

Pilgrim

Someone toyed with Beau Roberson’s emotions and broke him, leaving Pilgrim’s songwriting captain a rudderless shell of himself in the wounded “Out of Touch.” Stylish and starry-eyed, lost in its … Read more

Various Artists

The Minus Five gets the closest, I think, to the sound of classic NRBQ here. The rickety, anything goes rock ‘n roll spirit of the Q shines like an old, … Read more