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Sad Daddy includes Melissa Carper and might sometimes remind you of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks. The band favors acoustic instruments and playful music.

With his trademark down-home suavity and languid silly-putty phrasing, Lovett alternated songs funny and sincere, soulful and jazzy, bluesy and country (and novelty).

'Both Sides Now' takes the listener on a silken journey through classics by Joni Mitchell, Michel Legrand, Cole Porter and more.

In the music on composer David Bird's new album, the hardness and coldness of actual metal seem almost literally audible.

A multi-artist tribute focuses on little-known numbers that previously existed only in Pete Ham’s home demo versions. Their excellence underscores how much untapped potential he possessed.

There’s a reason George Thorogood & the Destroyers’ discography includes more than half a dozen live albums. Their high-octane, sax-spiced, blues-rock works best in a concert setting, where audiences seem to energize Thorogood, and he interacts with them as well as he does with his guitar. The latest recorded evidence …

A selection from the 76 pieces of Kwon's "America/Beautiful" project showed the composers' vast range of styles and approaches.

Four composers combine in an appealing work promoting "a shared community between us and the other living creatures that make us possible."

Springsteen’s return to his home turf lends a special flavor to this performance.

One of our foremost contemporary Bach interpreters, Dinnerstein also consistently celebrates the music of the now 89-year-old Philip Glass.