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David Torn - Prezens (2007)
By Mark Saleski There are guitarists with “chops," and there are guitarists with “feel." These are not mutually exclusive categories, though the longstanding argument often revolves around the idea that a player with the former seldom has much of the latter. It's a pointless argument, especially when there are examples that go so far out as ...
Steve Macfarlane - Happy Daze (2011)
With Happy Daze, singer/songwriter Steve Macfarlane whisks us back to the lushly sophisticated melodies of Burt Bacharach and Neil Sedaka, perhaps his clearest inspiration. It's a tricky thing, since both so often risked sounding mushy or maudlin, but Macfarlane is largely successful at recreating their timeless pop sensibility. Macfarlane, co-owner of Liverpool, England's Parr Street Studios ...
Duncan Sheik - Daylight (2003)
By Tom Johnson I fell hard for Sheik's highly developed melodic sense on Phantom Moon, a moody, dark, mostly acoustic album of songs about the psyche written by a friend and playwright. I stepped back through his small catalog to Humming and found the album almost as beguiling, and only his debut, self-titled album left me ...
Tab Benoit - Medicine (2011)
Since his 1992 debut Nice And Warm, you always know exactly what you'll get from a Tab Benoit record: honest, rough-and-ready electric blues with a dash of Cajun seasoning, soulful bayou ballads and a two-step or two thrown in for good measure, In many ways, that can sum up Benoit's new offering, Medicine, too. I'm still ...
Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (2006)
By Derrick Lord Four large letters printed across the top of a black and white photo on a CD cover: CASH. A picture of him sitting quietly, microphone hanging before him, head bowed, eyes closed and listening to the music track over headphones. Waiting for his cue to sing, it is hard to tell if the ...
Something Else! Interview: Steve Cropper, of Booker T. and the MGS
Steve Cropper, a seminal soul figure and guitarist in Booker T. and the MGs, pays tribute to childhood musical heroes the 5 Royales with Dedicated, set for release on August 9. Cropper, who has often credited 5 Royales guitarist Lowman “Pete" Pauling as a key influence, shot to fame as a guitarist and producer at Memphis' ...
Marshall and Lichtenberg - Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg (2010)
By Mark Saleski Most people think of the mandolin as being a rootsy, countrified kind of instrument. Surely there is no denying the rich history of the bluegrass side of the mandolin. Yessir, Bill Monroe was the king, but that does not mean that the mandolin can't move ahead (or back, as we shall see). For ...
One Track Mind: John Wetton, "The Last Night of My Life" (2011)
"Last Night" fades in with a tactile urgency, as Austrian jazz fusion guitarist Alex Machecek plinks, splonks, and then gets all bendy. It's easily the best performance—and, really, the best track—on John Wetton's new Raised in Captivity, a record that features a series of heavy-hitting guest stars. John Wetton, in great voice, embraces a deeply hopeful ...
Julia Hülsmann Trio - Imprint (2011)
German pianist Julia Hülsmann has made her mark with trio jazz fronted with a vocalist, either male or female, but had returned to the instrumental three when she signed up with ECM and recorded her first album with them, The End Of A Summer (2008). Now comes the follow-up three years later with Imprint. Hülsmann is ...
Something Else! Featured Artist: The Funky, Funky JB Horns
James Brown got all of the headlines, be they for his fancy moves, his fancier suits or his brushes with the law. But the JB Horns, those great groovers who provided the punctuation to every grunt, gasp and squeal, remain an underrated element to the legend. Maceo Parker, the muscular saxophonist, has perhaps had the most ...
