Robert Plant | Carry Fire – CD Review
Robert Plant’s 11th solo album, Carry Fire, begins with a heavy percussion and acoustic guitar swirl of a tune whose title was certainly lifted from the singer’s past: “May...
Pat Travers | Swing! – CD Review
Forty years into his career, who would have ever thought electric guitar master Pat Travers would start swinging…for real? On his eight-song album Swing!, Travers interprets classics of the...
George Thorogood & The Destroyers | The Dirty Dozen – CD Review
Buying a George Thorogood & The Destroyers is almost like buying an AC/DC
album. In both cases, you pretty much know what you’re in for. No surprises,
nothing experimental — just...
Greta Van Fleet | The Battle At Garden’s Gate – New Studio Release Review
An artist’s second album is often a make-it-or-break-it situation. It either validates longevity or demonstrates the success of the first album was a fluke, based on years of development....
Joe Satriani | Shockwave Supernova – CD Review
There was a time when super guitarist Joe Satriani stepped up and sang on his records. He did a decent job on 1991's Flying In A Blue Dream, but...
The Pretenders | Break Up The Concrete – CD Review
All’s fair in the ups and downs of the Pretenders, whose singular mainstay
Chrissie Hynde keeps plugging away against time, travesty and circumstance.
Just when you she’s left the building, here...
Walter Trout & His Band | Luther’s Blues – CD Review
Blues-rock guitar master Walter Trout's story certainly makes for great blues-like topicality. After leaving New Jersey in 1973 and heading to Los Angeles, he played with Joe Tex, Canned...
Mitch Ryder | Detroit Breakout! – CD Review
Coming off a rockin’ Christmas-themed release at the end of 2018, the dean of Detroit rock and soul Mitch Ryder returns in 2019 with this almost all hard-stomping collection...
Ann Wilson | Fierce Bliss – New Studio Release Review
Ann Wilson has some Fierce Bliss, her 2022 solo album, for us all. From the opener “Greed,” to the Zeppelinesque “Black Wing,” to deep originals and sailing covers, we get...
Wishbone Ash | Blue Horizon – CD Review
When it comes to a twin-guitar approach, Wishbone Ash remains one of the forerunners. Their early progressive leanings gave way to a harder, bluesier direction that, through a myriad...
