Saga | Trust – CD Review

Saga new album is called Trust and you can trust it is filled with everything that made us love Saga all along. Solid vocals, from both Michael Sadler and Jim Gilmour,...

Leslie West | Soundcheck – CD Review

Leslie West's Soundcheck opens with a blurping synth and guitar on "Left By The Roadside To Die" with West yelling about being left down and out…but rising up to...

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...

Boz Scaggs | Speak Low – CD Review

If you’re looking to curl up in front of a fire with your significant other, I can’t think of a better CD to play then Boz Scagg’s sultry silky new one,...

Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks | Tangled Tales – CD Review

Tom Waits once said, “Dan Hicks is fly, sly, wily and dry!” Elvis Costello remarked, “Dan Hicks is an American Treasure.” And Bette Midler praised him with: “Dan Hicks is lightning...

Jeremy Spencer | Coventry Blues – CD Review

He began as Peter Green’s slide guitar foil in Fleetwood Mac in the 60s, only to drop out of the music scene for nearly two decades. Then he returned...

Steve Winwood | Nine Lives – CD Review

Steve Winwood has signed on with Columbia Records and returned back to the high life with Nine Lives. Not that he ever left because his previous album, 2003’s About Time, released...

Mike Oldfield | Return To Ommadawn – CD Review

Mike Oldfield's Return To Ommadawn is what I’d venture to guess all true fans of the composer and instrumentalist have been waiting for. It’s a return to the to...

Pavlov’s Dog | The Adventures Of Echo & Boo And Assorted Small Tails –...

In 1975, Pavlov's Dog burst onto the progressive rock scene, combining the mellotron and the strange and high warble of David Surkamp. Their first tow albums, Pampered Menial and...

Rival Sons | Great Western Valkyrie – CD Review

There's a popular notion that "Classic Rock" is defined by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and other artists of the 1960s and 1970s. These bands...