Let’s Rock is the first Black Keys album since the psychedelic soul-garage-rock of 2014’s True Blue. In the five years since, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney each worked on their own projects. Auerbach released an album and a handful of […]
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Willie Nelson has spent his 80s so far doing what he’s always done — just being Willie Nelson, which is more than any of the rest of us can muster. Since 2012, he’s released 13 albums, an average of two […]
JJ Cale always displayed a calm, confident cool that was the envy of those who both admired him and covered his songs. His groove seemed effortless, as if he channeled it from somewhere in the ether, or possibly straight from […]
Jack Ingram does the best version of “Desperados Waiting for a Train” that’s not by Guy Clark and I’ll stand on Steve Earle’s coffee table in Jerry Jeff Walker’s cowboy boots and say that. But I’m getting ahead of myself. […]
The mid-1970s were not a fertile time for Townes Van Zandt’s recording career. Though he had released six albums by 1972’s The Late Great Townes Van Zandt, its follow-up, Flyin’ Shoes, wouldn’t see the light of day until 1978. In […]
Mary Bragg has been producing albums of solid Americana since 2007, a soulful, deliberate mix of folk and country delivered by classically trained vocals that have consistently pleased the ears. It wasn’t until 2017’s Lucky Strike, however, that Bragg decided […]
“This Land,” the title track from Gary Clark Jr.’s third studio full-length, opens with a Parliament/Funkadelic-style otherworldly keyboard that sounds as if the mothership is landing — landing “right in the middle of Trump country.” Over a reggae groove and […]
It seemed fitting that, at the 2015 LOCKN’ Festival, The Tedeschi Trucks Band performed a tribute to Mad Dogs and Englishmen, the film and double album that chronicled the legendary but hot mess of a tour fronted by Joe Cocker […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As 2018 comes to a close, we’re looking back at some releases from the year that we didn’t get a chance to write up when they were released. Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite’s No Mercy In This Land was released in […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As 2018 comes to a close, we’re looking back at some releases from the year that we didn’t get a chance to write up when they were released. Dan Baird and Homemade Sin’s Screamer was released in September. Halfway […]
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