Applying thirty-year hindsight to Tom Petty’s Wildflowers (released 11/1/94) inevitably considers the archival projects devoted to the title in more recent years. Each, in its own way—and as an all-encompassing archival
Fever Longing Still is Paul Kelly’s most conventional long-player since 2017’s Life Is Fine. Co-produced by the artist with engineer Steven Shram–notably along with Kelly’s longtime band mates–a slate of a dozen original
Released less than six months after his eponymous Columbia Records debut, Johnny Winter’s sophomore album for the label (and third solo overall) put to rest the naysaying that arose after
Walter ‘Furry’ Lewis was one of the first of the old-time blues musicians of the 1920s to be brought out of retirement and given a new lease of recording life
Iain Matthews is hardly a household name, but he has had his share of flirtations with the mainstream throughout his sixty-year-plus career. Having exited English folk pioneers Fairport Convention, he
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 1982 album Long After Dark deserves the expanded reissue treatment of its two-CD and one Blu-Ray package. A somewhat underappreciated entry into this great American rock and
Watching what is ostensibly the only existing film of Jimmy Reed compels the question of whether any other blues figure has created a more fully-formed persona through his songs (or
Hamish Anderson has increasingly fine-tuned his skills as a recording artist over his last few releases, including the 2014 EP Restless, plus his first two full-length albums, Trouble in 2016 and Out Of My Head three
The Who’s Odds & Sods (released 10/4/74) is a prime example of how retrospect can reveal more than a little profundity in the work of rock and roll’s most ambitious artists.
The night before, the Allman Brothers Band hosted Dr. John at the Beacon Theater in 2011 for a spirited run-through of his composition “Walk On Gilded Splinters” (in regular rotation
