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Album Review

Luca Benedetti: Slow Down For Turtles

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by Doug Collette
September 17, 2026

Guitarist/composer Luca Benedetti is emerging from the same hallowed Brooklyn community that has nurtured the alchemy of Medeski Martin & Wood as well as the chameleonic likes of his fretboard peer Will Bernard. The winsomely titled Slow Down For Turtles, Benedetti's third album with bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Tony Mason, is an object lesson in the concept of “less is more;" its music in deceptively stark contrast to its intricate cover images, photographs by Benedetti's father of ...

Album Review

Amy Helm: What The Flood Leaves Behind

Read "What The Flood Leaves Behind" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
July 31, 2021

Amy Helm possesses all the inner direction, motivation and independence of her father, Levon, the drummer and vocalist for The Band. As evidence of those inherent character traits, she projects her personality with no traces of self-consciousness not only in her collaborations--Sisters of the Strawberry Moon's Solstice (New West Records, 2019), produced by the North Mississippi Allstars' Luther Dickinson-- but also her solo projects like What The Flood Leaves Behind. Her third effort to date is an elegant mix of ...