You’re likely already questioning why Jazz Is Dead (JID) would release an album featuring Tony Allen, one of the most formidable drummers of all time now. Checking in at number
Anthology draws on drummer Charlie Watts’ other love; some call it his first love – jazz. The sprawling set is available in double vinyl and double CD versions. The latter
A lot of well-known singer-songwriters have called Texas home. Al Staehely may not be one of the more well-known Texas songwriters, but he has been at it a long time,
Guitarist Monster Mike Welch is entering yet another stage of his still young career by going solo and signing with Mike Zito’s Gulf Coast Records. A guitar prodigy, Welch was
Trumpeter-vocalist-composer Benny Benack III has been ascending the jazz ranks quickly and the aptly titled Third Time’s the Charm should by all accounts be a breakthrough that leads to even
You Know Who is the follow-up to 2021’s Introducing…The Pink Stones for the Athens, GA-based band, made up entirely of Athens musicians who play in other bands around town (including
Like a number of bands who were finally starting to build up momentum in 2019 when the pandemic put the brakes on those much-coveted European music festivals slots and U.S.
The travails that Lucinda Williams has suffered over the past two years would sap the strength of even the strongest individuals. Losing a new home to a storm, enduring a
The Baseball Project knows how to keep a good thing going even though there has been a nine-year hiatus. Just as the best baseball announcers have endless amounts of stories
In the ‘60s and early ‘70s, Stax Records was synonymous with Soul and Gospel. The Memphis-based record company and its subsidiaries were the home of some of Soul music’s biggest
