Album Reviews

ALBUM REVIEW: Kim Wilson's 'Slow Burn' Honors Musical Collaborators

Kim Wilson has come a long way on his lips. With his harp and his voice, Wilson has been protecting and serving the blues community since the early seventies; he co-founded the Fabulous Thunderbirds with Jimmie Vaughan in' 74 and still fronts the band today.

His latest, Slow Burn on M.C Records, pays homage to an elite bundle of venerable bluesmen including Howlin' Wolf, B.B King, Little Milton, Magic Sam, Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Nighthawk. Wilson's four originals sound like they came from the belly of the same blues beasts that he's honoring.

ALBUM REVIEW: Merle Haggard Gets His Double-Due With a New Willie Nelson Set and A Top-Rate Tribute Reissue

“He won’t ever be gone,” Willie Nelson sang of Merle Haggard on the last song of Nelson’s 2017 album God’s Problem Child — and he’s right, of course. Haggard, who died in 2016, was one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century regardless of genre. So

ALBUM REVIEW: Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover Channel Woodie Guthrie on ‘What of Our Nature’

Building on their 2018 EP, Among Horses III, Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover release their full-length debut, channeling, as their bio states, “the spirit of Woodie Guthrie.” The project does indeed exude a decidedly vintage feel, though themes such as the dark side of capitalism, the role of greed

ALBUM REVIEW: Amy Speace Delivers on Emotional New Album, 'The Blue Rock Sessions'

Over the summer, Amy Speace did a weeklong songwriting residency at the Blue Rock Artist Ranch and Studio in Wimberly, Texas. During the week, she had access to a recording studio for three hours with engineer Hayes Howard. She emerged from that collaboration with the sparsely arranged songs on her

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