review Archive
29 Jul 2025
Album Review: The Final Solution – Just Like Gold: Live at The Matrix
Values and mores change over time. What was once fair game is now considered transgressive; detractors will call this reality “political correctness.” I see it as evolving compassion and empathy. […]
28 Jul 2025
Album Review: Sly and the Family Stone – The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967
The history of music is filled with brilliant yet deeply troubled artists. Syd Barrett. Brian Wilson. Roky Erickson. Skip Spence. Arthur Lee. Emitt Rhodes. Bill Evans. I’m sure readers can […]
21 Jul 2025
Album Review: Sendelica – The Complete Mankind
Here’s something different. A band most have never heard of, based in Wales, with shifting personnel built around two or three main players, and with an extensive catalog. They release […]
18 Jul 2025
Album Review: Robin Trower – For Earth Below 50th Anniversary Edition
Listeners who thrilled to Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” may have fallen in love with the tune and its J.S. Bach-inspired melody. But that song represented the creatively […]
09 Jul 2025
Album Review: Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXI
A legendary Pink Floyd live performance finally gets a standalone release, with a striking new mix by Steven Wilson. Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXII was released May 2. Debuting in […]
27 Jun 2025
Album Review: Willie Buck & Bob Corritore – Oh Yeah!
Band leader, harmonica player and archivist Bob Corritore continues his highly regarded “From the Vaults” series of releases with Oh Yeah!, a collaboration with blues vocalist Willie Buck. Culled primarily […]
26 Jun 2025
Album Review: Tim Gartland – Right Amount of Funky
Nashville-based singer and harmonica player Tim Gartland has lived a lifetime in the blues. After witnessing Muddy Waters live onstage, the then-teenage Gartland knew the path he would follow. Subsequently […]
25 Jun 2025
Album Review: Mac Arnold — On a Mission
Necessity is the mother of invention; Mac Arnold arrived at that realization early in his career. When he was a mere teenager, the Upstate South Carolina native fashioned a guitar […]
20 Jun 2025
Album Review: Pete Ham – Acoustic
The cache of previously unheard Badfinger-related music seems to never end. And far from that being a complaint; it’s all greeted with appreciation here. But it’s still fascinating that more […]
19 Jun 2025
Album Review: Charles Mingus – In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts
A landmark musician and composer, Charles Mingus is among the most important artists in jazz, and in music overall. Yet those without deep knowledge of his work tend to place […]