Hot musicianship, a great album and a slot in Memphis' International Blues Challenge.

photo: Jeff Delavergne Old pro musicians have no patience for wasted time.

An expressive and forceful debut that strings together junkyard brawlers, country weepers, jazzy haunts...

Nancy McCallion's new CD sparked by a working poor art exhibit.

Though she’s pushing 72, the legendary singer proved at Plush last Saturday night that she’s still got her chops.

Even the most staid individual couldn't deny the alluring sensuality of Sentido. Impassioned notes deftly dance and beautifully fly from the instruments of Nathaniel Burnside (guitar), Justin F

THE CARNIVALEROS cover a bunch of musical ground on the disk -mostly various folk traditions, but there are tinges of jazz and blues folded in here and again.

THE RIGHTEOUS blues rock guitarist has released a six-song EP recorded earlier this year. Cowell penned lyrical rhymes covering themes of optimism, discrimination, longing, bad days and - of course - the power of love. Love's so stimulating, throws me out of bed/Write down a new song that's going through my head…

THE TRÉS BON AMOR releases his instrumental record at Plush on June 5, with cuts that are extremely - guess what? - cinematic.

THE FLATS are rockin' songsters who knock it out of the park with this 11-song, self-release recorded at Loveland Studios. Any album with talk of fleeing to Mexico on its first track always does me right.