Category Archives: Album Reviews

Duane Allman’s Daughter Galadrielle and the Skydog Box Set

Skydog is a 7-disc collection celebrating the life and legacy of the late Duane Allman, with music spanning from high school days (with brother Gregg) to powerful live performances by the original Allman Brothers lineup (Berry Oakley, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks, Jaimoe, Gregg, and Duane) only a few weeks before Duane’s death. Included in the […]

Son Volt – Honky Tonk

One of the best compliments I can give Son Volt’s new Honky Tonk album is the fact – a fact, Jack – that after the first listen to the liner note-less advance CD, I was writing the PR folks to get a copy of the album credits … convinced that a few of the tunes […]

Jimi Hendrix – People, Hell and Angels

Even hardcore skeptics of Jimi Hendrix’ posthumous catalog will have to admit: People, Hell and Angels contains some damn fine music. Scanning the track list won’t do it: there are a number of these tunes that have appeared on past releases (official and otherwise) but the versions offered here are about as pure Jimi as […]

Panic, Ginsberg, The Velvets & Exile: Daniel Hutchens talks about Bloodkin’s One Long Hustle

From The Gospel Of Thomas: “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” Daniel Hutchens and Eric Carter have spent their lives bringing forth what is within them – […]

Commander Cody & His Modern Day Airmen – Live From The Island

Commander Cody (aka George Frayne) has been making the world grin since the late ’60s with his brand of well-smoked bluesy boogie, dwelling in a place where freaks and rednecks and heads and truck drivers can shake their butts in harmony. Just as a bolo tie ain’t out of style at a Commander Cody show, […]

The New Orleans Suspects – Caught Live At The Maple Leaf

Help me out here: what constitutes a supergroup? My cynical side says media hoopla and plenty o’ merchandise seals the deal in many cases; enough cries of “We are a supergroup” and the t-shirts to prove it is the norm these days. If a confab of veteran players with amazing talent and the pedigrees to […]

Devon Allman – Turquoise

You can dwell on Devon Allman being the son of Gregg all you want; it really has nothing to do with the music on Devon’s new solo album Turquoise. Does the son sound like his old man when he cranks on the bluesy growl? Sure – but that’s in his genes, folks … he can’t […]

Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers

The opening seconds of Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers are awash in joyful noise: Marty Sammon’s gentle organ is the first thing you hear; next comes Chuck Campbell, working his multi-levered and -pedaled steel guitar to bounce one stinging note off the other; his brother Darick’s lap steel joins in, all icy-hot sizzling tone; […]

The Pogues – The Very Best Of the Pogues

Let’s start right off by acknowledging the fact that if you already own The Best Of The Pogues, The Rest Of The Best, Essential Pogues, The Ultimate Collection, Dirty Old Town: The Platinum Collection, Just Look Them Straight In The Eye and Say … Pogue Mahone!, and/or an older album that was also named The […]

Rock Candy Funk Party – We Want Groove

So chances are you’re going to look at the cover of We Want Groove and say, “Wait – haven’t I seen this somewhere before …?” And you have, of course: trade the lady in her underoos squatting over a wicked cool old Fender amp (I like amps, myself) for a Black cat with his head […]