A SOLOMON BURKE SCORE
It had been a while since I had visited a record store. Part of the reason is that there just isn’t aren’t as many stores around to pop into. And for whatever reasons, I just never made it to one…
BETTYE LAVETTE SINGS BOB DYLAN’S SONGS
On Bettye LaVette’s new album, Things Have Changed, she sings 12 Bob Dylan songs. But don’t even think about calling it a covers album. “A cover is when you listen to the song, you put it in your key, and…
“The Old Guys” is What’s New From Amy Rigby
There’s Bob, an old boyfriend. And Bob Dylan. And Philip Roth and Robert Altman. They’re just four of the guys, old guys, who appear on Amy Rigby’s new album, The Old Guys. But it’s not just old guys who populate…