Eastern Pennsylvania’s devoted blues community, as well as several fans from New Jersey and New York, showed up in enough force to make the seventh annual Blast Furnace Blues Festival at
[rating=8.00] Rod Picott is a multi-faceted writer. This double CD set of songs, Out Past the Wires, is the inspiration for an accompanying book of short stories. While we deal
[rating=9.00] When you win a Grammy as Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite did in 2014 for Get Up! an encore is certainly called for. In No Mercy in This Land
[rating=9.00] We are reaching the point where many of our favorite artists are pausing to reflect, as if to ask whether they would record their beloved songs the same way
[rating=8.00] True to her reputation as a singular interpreter, Bettye LaVette will turn heads again with Things Have Changed, putting her own spin on Bob Dylan’s songs much the way
[rating=8.00] Vermonter Caitlin Canty finds Nashville to her liking on her fourth release, a mostly dark, brooding but ultimately hopeful work, Motel Bouquet. Produced by Punch Brother banjoist Noam Pikelny,
We often liberally use the term artist in a one-dimensional sense when referring to musicians. Phil Madeira, on the other hand, is as multi-dimensional as one could be. He is
[rating=8.00] This is the fourth release, a self-titled one for Steve Gadd’s own band, following closely the release of Gadd’s collaboration with Chick Corea just two months ago. The album
[rating=9.00] Every so often a voice will come along that just completely bowls you over. One publication described Courtney Marie Andrews’ voice as “midway between Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston.”
[rating=8.00] Here’s a fresh new voice, singer-songwriter Logan Magness making his first full-length recording, Memphis on My Mind. Magness recorded the album in San Francisco, where he lived for several
