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Category Archives: Album Reviews
Drive-By Truckers: Live & Alive
Tickled to have my feature on the Drive-By Truckers in the December issue of Relix magazine – talking with Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley about the band’s new live album It’s Great To Alive!
Drive-By Truckers – English Oceans Deluxe/Black Ice Verite DVD
The hardest part of writing this review is knowing what category to put it in, as there’s a lot – a hell of a lot – going on here. First, you have the complete English Oceans album that was released earlier this year and reviewed right here. If you already own English Oceans, that’s okay: […]
Jim Weider’s Project Percolator – Live at Mystic Blues Festival 2013 (Featuring Hook Herrera)
Guitarist Jim Weider and his various Project Percolator ensembles cover a lot of musical ground in the course of any given night. A typical Project Percolator set might incorporate elements of out-there-and-back jazz, nasty-assed funk, rock as rock gets, slap-yerself-silly rockabilly and deep-groove reggae – just for starters. And usually Weider himself is leading the […]
Medeski Scofield Martin Wood – Juice
The thing about magic is, it just frigging happens. For instance, consider what takes place when keyboardist John Medeski, drummer Billy Martin and bassist Chris Wood open the arms of their three-headed funky out-thereness and embrace the guitar wizardry of John Scofield. It doesn’t matter how long it’s been since the quartet last played together […]
The Allman Brothers Band – At Fillmore East: The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings
The thing is, not long after the original Allman Brothers Band’s At Fillmore East was released in 1971, the mold was truly broken. Pulled from two all-nighters’ worth of music recorded that March, At Fillmore East hit the streets in June, unleashing the ABB’s wildass mix of rock, blues, jazz and marrow on the world. […]
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – CSNY 1974
Over the years, the legend of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young’s 1974 tour managed to surpass the memories of the music itself. It seemed what was best remembered were the wretched excesses of the 31 concerts that CSNY played in 24 cities between July 9 and September 14 of that year. […]
Iron Orchard – For Amusement Only
Hallahooping out of western Illinois comes Iron Orchard, pulling off the cool feat of sounding like the hometown band of Just About Anywhere, USA. Zip codes and accents have nothing to do with what’s going on here: there’s a “Hey … don’t I know these guys?” familiarity to the dozen tunes on Iron Orchard’s new […]
Rich Robinson – The Ceaseless Sight
Rich Robinson’s new solo album The Ceaseless Sight is a unique piece of work – an uplifting collection of tunes that comes with an inescapable contact high. The concept of an album crafted from positive vibes usually conjures up visions of smiley face emoticons and saccharine-laced, empty-cored melodies – but The Ceaseless Sight proves you […]
Brian Henneman Of The Bottle Rockets: 20 Weird Dog Years And Still Countin’
Perhaps it hasn’t translated to millions of records sold, but for a solid two decades-plus the Missouri-based Bottle Rockets have been one of those bands that other players admire. Don’t waste a lot of time trying to tag them: alt country; Americana punk; rock ‘n’ twang … the Rockets are all of these things and […]
Hank Williams Sr. – The Garden Spot Programs, 1950
At this point in time – 61 years since they hauled his lifeless body out of the back seat of that powder blue Cadillac on New Year’s Day of 1953 – Hank Williams Sr. has been dead over twice as long as he was alive. I’ll give you a moment to mull that over, take […]