Other People’s Lives
V2
Davies still owes us three more solo albums, if he’s going to catch up with his brother, Dave. But the fact that he finally managed to pull off a record of his own is good news, indeed.
Tag: rock
Reviews
Donald Fagen
Morph the Cat
Reprise
Let’s not mince words here: This is great stuff.
More than Fagen’s other solo albums — 1982’s “The Nightfly” and 1993’s “Kamakiriad” — this sounds like a Steely Dan album. One could dare say it sounds more like Steely Dan than the Dan’s last two albums.
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The Derek Trucks Band
Songlines
Columbia
These are heady days for slide guitar fans.
The old guard (Ry Cooder, David Lindley, Sonny Landreth) continues to crank out albums, although with age the output seems to have slowed to about one every five years — collectively.
Reviews
El Capitan
What Ails You
Self-released
Poco meets Pink Floyd?
El Capitan, a San Francisco-based group of modern-day space cowboys, are on to something. After all, David Gilmour used a pedal steel on “Dark Side of the Moon’s” opener, “Breathe.”
Reviews
A Case for Case:
Various Artists
A Case for Case:
A Tribute to the Songs of Peter Case
Hungry for Music
The sheer size of this tribute speaks volumes (three, to be exact) about the peer recognition troubadour Case has.
