Album Reviews

Tabor is a well-versed artist.

The highlight of 'Tales from a Room' is the rich, delicate voice of Miriam Waks, with a striking exotic roundness, making it uniquely pleasing to listen to.

Paul McCartney-meets-Ray Charles on 'Love,' a New Orleans jazz-pop release by pianist Matt Lemmler.

Gin, Chocolate & Bottle Rockets' debut full-length album features beautifully arranged three-part harmonies and well-conceived, grown-up songs that stick in your mind.

'Circle of Life' by Kinky Friedman is a great album from an amazing writer whose musical talents have been sorely missed. Here's hoping this marks the beginning of a Kinky renaissance.

'Say Yeah!! Live at the Blue Nile' is tremendous. Water Seed certainly deliver the goods on this album.

'Shadowlands' is above average, combining roots-rock flavors, sometimes soothing, other times assertive, with Epp’s rasping vocal tones.

Some excellent big band recordings have come out recently, proving this storied and lively jazz subgenre continues to sizzle all these decades after the heydays of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Glenn Miller.

'In Your Room' broadcasts in dogmatic terms the necessity for filters, editing, and rehearsals.

'The Fool and the Magician' delivers inimitable folk music of excellence.