Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Amy Helm delivers her third solo album with What the Flood Leaves Behind from an eminently comfortable setting, a place where she’s played live shows many times,
British singer/songwriter Joan Armatrading is almost unbelievably approaching her fifth musical decade. Armatrading has never been easy to categorize as she straddles the lines between blues, jazz, and several in
One of the great things about the blues is the range. The style spans from the traditional Delta blues that is well suited for a front porch, to hard-hitting blues
Jeremy James Meyer has managed to channel the ghosts of Jerry Jeff Walker, John Prine and Guy Clark on his latest, Alive & OK, while also coming off as much
A musician of less intensity and ingenuity than pianist/composer Brad Mehldau might well be overwhelmed in performing with an orchestra. But if Variations on a Melancholy Theme proves anything, it
Okay, it’s not as if pianist Todd Cochran just walked away from recording fifty years ago and made a sudden return. The recording hiatus itself is around ten years, Cochran
Julian Lage makes a major statement by issuing his seventh solo album on Blue Note Records, perhaps the most hallowed label in the history of modern jazz. The very title
Westward Bound! offers previously unreleased recordings from underrecognized tenor bop giant Harold Land and is being issued for June 12 Record Store Day. As such, it will follow a sequence
What’s it say about a band when a collection of outtakes from their previous studio effort is superior to that album itself? When it’s Lukas Nelson & Promise of the
In a life cut too short too abruptly, Tim Buckley was also just a bit overly idiosyncratic to ascend into the upper echelons of contemporary folk music. Yet, as much
