Promised Land Sound: For Use and Delight
If your promised land is full of warm harmonies, rich guitar, and well-crafted songs of cosmic country rock, then you’ve died and gone to heaven.
Rob Caldwell
Of Acolytes, Geese, and Ghosts: Genesis’ Steve Hackett and Anthony Phillips
The album journeys taken by Genesis' Steve Hackett and Anthony Phillips in the mid-'70s are remarkably similar.
Robert Glasper: Covered
Covered stands, in the end, as a multi-layered work possessing an air of adventure, while still remaining accessible. It’s a rewarding collection by one of the most significant composers and interpreters in contemporary jazz.
Great Lake Swimmers: A Forest of Arms
A solid album with a number of beguiling songs and a lot of spirit, A Forest of Arms is the sound of a band well into their musical journey, with many more miles still to go.
James Blackshaw: Summoning Suns
Summoning Suns is a perfect entry point into James Blackshaw's eclectic musical journey.
Cannabis Cowboys, Guitar-slinging Musicians, and Desert Landscapes
Homegrown captures the weirdness of Austin, as depicted in music poster art from the hippie days to the punk days.
Various Artists: Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Rarities From the Second Decade
If the importance of a label can be judged by its talent, then Signature has done pretty good in its 20-plus year existence.
Jorma Kaukonen: Ain’t in No Hurry
This is feel-good music, played by a seasoned and assured troubadour equally at home on a spotlit stage or a front porch.
Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, and Other Ephemera Found in Libraries
Letter to a Future Lover tries to make sense of the world through the flotsam and jetsam of things left in books.
John Denver: All of My Memories: The John Denver Collection
Denver’s image was wrapped in sincerity and disarming, if sometimes hokey, charm. On one hand these were his weaknesses – he was an easy target for the critics – but they were also his strengths, as he came across as genuine and honest.
‘Pressed for Time’ Shows That Technology’s Not All That Bad
Pressed for Time suggests new ways of looking at how we fit in as individuals with the rapid evolution of time and technology.
The Church: Further/Deeper
An album that moves the band onward and upward, further and deeper – a journey begun a long time ago in a 1980s galaxy far, far away.