[rating=8.00] Too often in this cruel music business the best musicians are under-recognized and/or underappreciated. Steve Dawson – master guitarist, songwriter, producer, and label head for Canada’s Black Hen Music
[rating=8.00] Buddy Guy’s partnership with producer and songwriter Tom Hambridge has made him quite successful, as we now find Guy in his eighth decade. And, according to Guy, one of
[rating=8.00] R+R = NOW is a collective, brought together by Robert Glasper as a genre-smashing outfit that speaks out not as much in a protest mode, but more about expressing
[rating=8.00] Until his relatively surprising Grammy win in 2016, many of us were not familiar with Fantastic Negrito (a.k.a. Bay Area-based artist Xavier Dphrepaulezz (pronounced Deh-frep-aw-lez). Now he encores that
[rating=8.00] Phil Cook delivers the kind of informal gospel-flavored album you could easily associate with a southern church or simply a bunch of friends singing on a back porch. The
[rating=8.00] Nicki Bluhm had a nice six-year stint going with her band, The Gramblers, playing large venues, mega festivals, and sharing the stage with top grossing acts. Then her marriage
[rating=9.00] On the surface, this may seem like an odd pairing of two legends. Their voices couldn’t be more different with Alvin’s low and rowdy baritone offset by Gilmore’s high
[rating=7.00] Mentions of dreams are sprinkled through Radio Sounds, veteran Nashville guitarist Tony Keats’ debut album as a singer-songwriter. It’s fair to say Keats has been wanting to go in
[rating=7.00] The first thing that strikes you when listening to Clarence Bucaro is his clear, soulful voice, one that could keep your attention for hours on end. Then, as you
[rating=9.00] Gretchen Peters consistently raises the bar and somehow manages to surpass it with each album. Her previous outing, 2015’s Blackbirds won the International Roots Album of the Year. This
