review Archive
28 Oct 2025
Album Review: Gina Coleman – Unequivocally Blue
On her own, leading a succession of groups and in recent year fronting the Misty Blues Band, Gina Coleman has paid her dues and earned accolades while doing so. A […]
27 Oct 2025
Album Review: John Lee Hooker – Boom Boom
John Lee Hooker’s recording career began in 1948 with the release of his landmark (and r&b #1) single “Boogie Chillen.” Though intended as a demo recording, the side was wildly […]
24 Oct 2025
Album Reviews: Two from Velvet Opera
Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera (later simply Velvet Opera) is one of countless British acts that didn’t break through in the U.S. Based on their debut, they deserved much better. Two […]
07 Oct 2025
Album Review: The Gregg Allman Band – One Night in DC: May 15, 1984
The Allman Brothers Band always stood far above its so-called peers in the Southern rock movement. Calling the ABB Southern rock does their legacy a disservice; the band was always […]
30 Sep 2025
Hundred Word Reviews, September 2025: Prog
It’s Hundred-worder time again here at Musoscribe World HQ. What’s on? Prog! Lotsa, lotsa prog. Mostly new, but one very noteworthy reissue. Markus Reuter – Truce <3 Markus Reuter is […]
24 Sep 2025
Album Review: The Brigadier — Sailing the Seven Neuroses
I reviewed The Brigadier’s Wash Away the Day back in 2017, and named it one of the year’s best. Here we are eight years later, and the Brigadier (Matt Williams […]
23 Sep 2025
Album Review: D.K. Harrell – Talkin’ Heavy
In this era of “blues lawyers” – dilettante guitarists who can afford pricey gear and private lessons, but who possess no true feel for the blues – the emergence of […]
09 Sep 2025
Album Review: Soft Machine – Floating World Live
In my recent look at Soft Works’ Abracadabra, I laid out a very rough sketch of the convoluted timeline that is the Soft Machine story. One of the mileposts in […]
08 Sep 2025
Album Review: Soft Works – Abracadabra
From its beginnings, pioneering Canterbury group Soft Machine was an anomaly: a “rock” group that leaned decidedly toward jazz, yet worked within the rock idiom, as part of the rock […]
05 Sep 2025
Album Review: Dave Specter – Live at Space
SPACE is a popular club in the Chicago area; its calendar includes top local, regional and national acts. Being a hotbed of electric blues, the venue has its share of […]