Alliance | Fire And Grace – CD Review
Vocalist and bassist Robert Berry, guitarist Gary Pihl, and drummer David Lauser — collectively known as Alliance — have a new album for 2019 called Fire And Grace, the first...
Hawkestrel | The Future Is Us – CD Review
No one can say that Hawkestrel’s The Future Is Us doesn’t bring together an interesting mix of musicians. From the Hawkwind family, there are present and former members including...
Jack Tempchin | One More Time With Feeling – CD Review
Songwriters Hall Of Fame inductee and Diamond status songwriter Jack Tempchin is best known for penning the Eagles' "Peaceful Easy Feeling" and co-writing "Already Gone." He also had a...
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...
Peter Frampton Band | All Blues – CD Review
When you're someone like Peter Frampton, who's pretty much done it all, there's no better place to turn than to the blues. Though his touring days are winding down...
Black Oak Arkansas | Underdog Heroes – CD Review
Underdog Heroes is as much the name of the new Black Oak Arkansas’s first full-length new recording in three decades as it describes this rockin’ rollickin’ American Southern rock...
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...
Bruce Springsteen | Western Stars – CD Review
Opening with droplet-like acoustic, accented vocal, and sweeping strings, Bruce Springsteen picks up his listener on “Hitch Hikin’” and delivers us into Western Stars, his 19th album. The Boss’...
Sammy Hagar & The Circle | Space Between – CD Review
During a brief exchange on the red carpet in 2014, I asked Sammy Hagar about making albums, and he said in today’s music industry, it’s not about “spending a...
Jon Anderson | 1000 Hands – CD Review
Since being shown the door by Yes in 2008, Jon Anderson has elevated himself to an astonishing level of progressive music practitioner. If his random solo epics or collaborations...
