Let’s get this out of the way right now. Terrific as they are, this list won’t include Hendrix’s extraordinary retooling of “All Along The Watchtower,” The Byrds’ jingle-jangly “Mr. Tambourine Man,” or Joan Baez’s sublime ...

Dylan fans have waited a decade for an audiophile edition of The Basement Tapes, two discs of demos recorded in 1967 in the cellar of the Band’s upstate New York ranch house, but excluded from ...

Reports earlier this year that Neil Young had made an album of songs by seminal American songwriter Stephen Foster had some expecting a genteel acoustic collection. Guess again. On his first recording with the complete ...

A sense of wonder still emanates from the graceful South African rhythms heard on this controversial, Grammy-winning 1986 album, newly reissued as a 180- gram LP and a four-disc 25th anniversary deluxe-edition box set. It’s ...

“Welcome to cyber-space, I’m lost in a fog/Everything’s digital, I’m still analog” proclaims Joe Walsh in “Analog Man,” the title track of his first solo release in nearly twenty years. He’s toying with us, of ...

This new outing by the Tedeschi Trucks Band is likely to cement the group’s reputation as one of today’s hottest live bands. Formed in 2010, TTB is led by blues singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi and her ...

Their first album the Counting Crows recorded after leaving a major label, Underwater Sunshine consists entirely of covers, and as such comes across as an opportunity for the Bay Area band to recharge their batteries. ...

Melody Gardot’s best songs have the half-festive, half-mordant air of a New Orleans funeral march. On blues from her superb 2009 album, My One and Only Thrill, her voice even sounds vaguely New Orleanian. On ...

Intense, gravel-voiced, and possessed, blues-rocker Paul Mark has often been compared to a firebrand preacher. On his ninth album he earns that comparison, in spades. Educated, insightful, engaged, and enraged, Mark turns up the heat ...

Hot on the heels of the legendary pop band’s 50th anniversary tour comes this collection of genial songs about cars, rock, radio, the beach, and reconciliation. That latter theme permeates the album and reflects the ...

London – 27 September, 2012 – The Beatles’ acclaimed original studio album remasters, released on CD in 2009 and in 2010 for digital download exclusively on iTunes, will make their long-awaited stereo vinyl debut on ...

I read the news today, oh boy… …yet I greeted it with a mixture of excitement and dread. Following the 2009 release of remastered CDs, EMI is releasing a 16LP box set of the Beatles ...

Lisa Mills is best known as a blues singer-songwriter in Europe and from Austin east to Florida, where she works a regular circuit of clubs and festivals across the Gulf Coast states. But if she ...

If the seven-year gap since the release of Dirty Three’s last studio album, Cinder, has had any noticeable effect, it’s been to strengthen this Australian instrumental trio’s improvisational empathy. Violinist Warren Ellis, guitarist Mick Turner, ...

After a seven-year hiatus from recording, Bonnie Raitt is back with a bluesy, soulful album that’s sure to make her fans fall in love with her all over again. Raitt has always had great taste ...