The recently deceased Dickey Betts did not often (or to a great extent) verbally expound upon the tragic death of Duane Allman in the fall of 1971. Instead, the surviving
Little Feat’s homage to the blues, Sam’s Place, is a natural companion piece to their collaborative venture of 2008, Join The Band. On that record, the band proffered a cross-section of material
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is ground zero for a collaboration between Neil Young and Crazy Horse that has lasted for over a half-century. The personnel has not always been the
Given that 1977 has become one of the most highly regarded epochs in Grateful Dead history, it only makes sense that Volume 50 of Dave’s Picks is devoted to two
In contrast to his often (always?) irascible peer Howlin’ Wolf (a/k/a Chester Burnett), John Lee Hooker was most amenable to collaborations. Bonnie Raitt, Los Lobos, Carlos Santana, and Charlie Musselwhite,
Brad Mehldau’s two latest efforts for Nonesuch Records are heady pieces of work indeed. After some digressions from his customary jazz orientation in the form of Your Mother Should Know, an
Los Lobos’ 2021 album Native Sons, comprised of (mostly) all cover songs (exclusively by Los Angeles-based artists), is prime evidence of how, during the course of their fifty-year-plus career, these musical emissaries
Consistently adhering to a rigorous tour schedule for the duration, the guitarist/vocalist/songwriter has toiled in solo and group settings to create the wide arc of a career that has often
The third studio album by The Allman Brothers Band following its 1989 reunion, Where It All Begins (released 5/3/94), suffers both in comparison to its predecessors, 1990’s Seven Turns and (especially) the
