Joe Cocker | Hymn For My Soul – CD Review

“This is the most musical record I’ve made in a very long time,” says Joe Cocker of his latest new release, Hymn For My Soul. And these gospel-based tunes are very...

Neil Diamond | Home Before Dark – CD Review

When you’ve enjoyed a successful four-decade musical career with 125 million records sold worldwide, multiple Top 40 hits, the requisite awards and sold-out shows where ever you play, it...

Judas Priest | Nostradamus – CD Review

Ever since Rob Halford returned to the scene of the crime with Judas Priest, expectations have been high for the Metal Gods. The 2005 reunion album Angel Of Retribution and subsequent...

Richie Havens | Nobody Left To Crown – CD Review

If you caught I’m Not There, the 2007 Todd Haynes film that explores six sides of Bob Dylan with — what else — six different actors, you may have recognized one...

Uriah Heep | Wake The Sleeper – CD Review

Somewhere between the progressive hard rock of Deep Purple and the operatic cabaret of Queen sits the legend of Uriah Heep. The road has never been easy for the English institution,...

John Mellencamp | Life, Death, Love And Freedom – CD Review

Fresh from producing the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss record Raising Sand, T Bone Burnett has set his sights on another figure whose image is forever ingrained in struggle, gumption and...

B.B. King | One Kind Favor – CD Review

When you’re on a roll, why not go for broke with a legend. That must have been what T Bone Burnett, a producer on a hot streak, may have been...

Little Feat | Join The Band – New Studio Release Review

Thirty years after their critically acclaimed live album Waiting For Columbus, Little Feat have unveiled a new studio recording. But Join The Band does more than cull its title...

James Taylor | Covers – CD Review

I’m sure, that if you asked me to name a better male vocalist in popular music of the last 30 years, I couldn’t conjure anyone better then James Taylor. The guy...

Brian Wilson | That Lucky Old Sun – CD Review

Instead of dredging up the past and reviving abandoned masterworks, Brian Wilson embarks a new journey by returning to Capitol Records and exploring the sunny side of Southern California on That...