Music Reviews: Cat Stevens, Lucinda Williams, and Joe Grushecky
A big-box edition of a Cat Stevens bestseller, four volumes of great covers by Lucinda Williams, and Joe Grushecky’s collaboration with Bruce Springsteen.
Music Reviews: Joni Mitchell’s ‘Archives Vol. 2’ plus the Wandering Hearts & the Accidentals
A five-CD box set consists entirely of previously unreleased material from one of Joni Mitchell’s most creative periods.
Music Reviews: Velvet Underground Tribute & Soundtrack Albums, plus Johnny Cash
New projects celebrate the work of one of the most innovative and influential bands in the history of rock.
Music Reviews: Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ (Super Deluxe Ed.), plus Elvis Costello’s ‘Spanish Model’ and New Holiday Music
The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You,’ now available in a greatly expanded deluxe edition, could have easily ended up as a mess. Instead, it’s often regarded as the group’s last great album.
Music Reviews: David Crosby, plus Steve Goodman, People Years, John DeNicola, and a Landslide Records Anthology
An expanded reissue offers a second chance to appreciate David Crosby’s critically derided 1971 solo debut, which was also the last album he issued under his own name for 18 years.
Music Reviews: Lindsey Buckingham, plus Bruce T. Carroll, Sarah McQuaid, Sue Foley, and Hank Erwin
On his first solo album in about a decade, the Fleetwood Mac alumnus delivers performances that sound redolent of his work with his old group.
By Jeff Burger 