Miles Davis
Miles Davis was in his mid-forties when he completed his transition from traditionalist to improvisational jazz-funk maestro, and most of his in-between work is...
Gretchen Peters
Burnt Toast & Offerings is a thematically pure collection of a dozen songs about yearning and waiting from Gretchen Peters, an accomplished songwriter who’s...
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash sat at a microphone in his home studio with his guitar and sang these often sentimental, sometimes corny, always heartfelt songs into...
Jeremy McComb
Jeremy McComb’s My Side of Town is a mix of what passes for traditional country today.
He wraps his strong countrified voice around songs filled...
The Fireman
Electric Arguments (Capitol/EMI Records)
By Justin Press
It's taken 46 years for Paul McCartney to finally enter a blue(s) period. His new side project, The...
Darling New Neighbors
Listening to music is usually a subjective experience, but certain rules and boundaries apply to performing it. Songwriting is not for the weak of...
The Slack
On The Deep End, The Slack offers a little something for every pop-rock fan. No matter what your favorite band is, it’s probably sonically...
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash’s career stretched over 50 years, but he saved the best for last. In his final decade, the music he recorded with rock...
The Crash That Took Me
Huge, shimmering, occasionally fuzzy guitars. Pounding, splashing drums and syrupy atmospherics. Slinky, androgynous vocals that slowly transmit Beatles-esque melodies with lyrics about transmutation, self-reflection,...
Effron White
Arkansas native Effron White’s vocal style has been compared to that of Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and John Prine.
That’s like saying “He sounds...
