This venerable band, The Nighthawks, the pride of the D.C. area, will reach their 50th year as a band at the end of 2021 with vocalist/harmonicist Mark Wenner as its
Leave to Joe Ely to deliver the first set of songs meant directly for this health pandemic. While we have all been social distancing. Ely, echoing the sentiments of most,
Shelby Lynne made her mark 20 years ago with I Am Shelby Lynne, the album which earned her a Best New Artist Grammy nod. This Shelby Lynne is spare, as has
Church House Blues is the most fully realized album of Crystal Shawanda’s split career. She began as an indigenous musician growing up on the Wikwemikong reserve on an island in
To be clear this is not the first album from Reverend Shawn Amos, it’s just the first with his newly formed band, The Brotherhood. Oh, in case you’re wondering, Amos
Admittedly this writer was drawn to Irish roots rocker Ben Reel when learning that the album was produced by Will Kimbrough and Tommy Womack. Then, Reel’s voice just took over
New Orleans native John “Papa” Gros has been celebrating NOLA culture for three decades now, yet Central City is only his third album but one that’s bound to gain him
There’s nobody like David Bromberg, except for maybe Larry Campbell (recent survivor of COVID-19 as you may have read), his producer now for three albums. The two are mutual admirers;
The visionary South African pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini makes his Blue Note Records debut, Modes of Communication: Letters from the Underworlds, an expansive album anchored by Makhathini’s expressive, McCoy
It’s been over years fifty now since we lost Billy Strayhorn, one of the most important composers of the twentieth century and yet his compositions keep appearing on so many
