Tag: features

Less than a year after a heart attack onstage in Romania, Al Di Meola sounds healthy and fully able to do what he does...

“I love the music, but it got so hard. Sometimes you’ve got to raise the white flag and go, ‘I gave it everything I...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-’73) became a musical fountainhead after emerging in the ’40s as a singing, guitar-picking firebrand performing pop and gospel. She was...

This month, we feature Jason Isbell, Steve Vai, Mark Sampson, Midge Ure, Michael Manring, Steve Hackett, The Outlaws, Larry Carlton, Albert King, B.B. King,...

Best known for his “Like A Rock” slide work behind Bob Seger and 1987-’91 stint with Fleetwood Mac, Vito’s lengthy resume also includes John...

Nearly 30 years ago, Mark Knopfler dissolved Dire Straits to launch a fruitful, substantive solo career centered on original tunes, his dusky voice, and...

Though promoted as a straight blues album (it definitely isn’t), this set more resembles ’70s hard rock with a bluesy edge. Yet, Orgy is...

Wielding maximum-strength blues and heaping helpings of rockabilly swagger, Jesse Dayton’s latest comes with guns blazing, saturated in piss ’n vinegar. Coming hot on...

In an ongoing mission to extricate himself from the labels that confine artistic freedom, Gary Clark, Jr.’s latest showcases the reality of his surroundings....

Two facets make this album from the “thinking man’s hard-rock band” newsworthy. First, all but one of its dozen songs are from studio and...