The legends of blues rock are here, in the best possible sound quality, to be savored in this playlist of featuring all the biggest names: Rory Gallagher, John Mayall, Gary Moore, Susan Tedeschi, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Santana, ZZ Top, Beth Hart, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winter, Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Rolling Stones, Joe Bonamassa, Ana Popovic, Popa Chubby, Slash, Gary Clark Jr., Jack White and more.
A songwriter's songwriter, David combines a keen social sensibility with dazzling musical ability and a strong voice to produce songs that are performed by dozens of other top musicians…
Parallel Dreams captures harpist/vocalist Loreena McKennitt at her absolute finest. Fully immersed in the Celtic style, this London, Ontario, performer's voice is lush and layered in warm harmonies, soaring overtop equally beautiful instrumentation. Flowing between traditional ("Annachie Gordon") and original ("Dickens' Dublin") fare, McKennitt slows down time and relaxes furrowed brows on this disc by staying true to her red-headed roots. Subsequent discs tend to experiment more with tangos and uptempo melodies; Parallel Dreams, however, is one long, luscious lullaby.
Sorcery! showcases the fully fleshed out vision of New York-bred conguero and percussionist Louis “Sabu” Martinez (1930–1979) who leads a nonet on this six-track opus congastium. It is released in 1958 on Columbia Records and comprises of anything but unique compositions, or better still, developments and progressions…
Patricia Barber, the performer known for boldly blurring the lines between poetry, jazz, and art song, has announced the forthcoming release of a new all-standards album, Clique, due out August 2021 in breathtaking hi-fi. The long-awaited successor to Nightclub, her critically acclaimed and fan-favorite first all-standards album, Clique features a tracklist of tunes that Barber has frequently performed as encores throughout her illustrious career, including classics by Rodgers & Hammerstein, Stevie Wonder, Lee Hazlewood, Lerner & Loewe, Thelonious Monk and more…
I Am Of Ireland is a collection of twenty-four poems by William Butler Yeats newly set to music by Raymond Driver and featuring more than thirty musicians of a generally Celtic persuasion….