Music & Book Reviews: Exploring Joni Mitchell’s Archives, Plus John Lennon’s Solo Years
Listen in as an obscure folksinger first reveals her brilliance. Plus, two books focus on a Beatle’s final decade.
Music Reviews: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Letter to You,’ Plus Jimmie Vaughan’s ‘The Pleasure’s All Mine’
The Boss looks back on his 20th studio album, which includes at least five songs that no fan will want to be without. Plus, Jimmie Vaughan plays the blues.
Music Reviews: Fleetwood Mac’s ‘1969 to 1974,’ Plus Steve Forbert’s ‘Rodgers Revisited’
A box set collects all the albums from the Mac’s noteworthy middle period and Forbert tips his hat to the Father of Country Music.
Music Reviews: Eric Andersen’s Latest Gems, Plus Al Stewart and Kelly Finnigan
The veteran folksinger continues his adventurous half-century career with a pair of three-CD sets. Also, an expanded reissue of an Al Stewart album and a soulful holiday CD.
Music Reviews: Two Releases Celebrate Grateful Dead’s ‘American Beauty,’ Plus Duke Robillard and Jesse Colin Young
To mark the 50th anniversary of a Dead classic, the group’s label has issued a digital-only collection of demos and outtakes and a remastered CD edition that adds a contemporaneous concert.
Music Reviews: Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Kevin Rowland
Hendrix plays Maui in 1970, a five-CD anthology collects prime material from Walker, and Rowland delivers imaginative covers of pop hits.
