Paradox Hotel
Inside Out
Sweden’s Flower Kings have one hell of a work ethic: 11 years, nine studio albums, four of them double albums. Not to mention side-project and solo releases.
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Ray Davies
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.
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Marley’s Ghost
Spooked
Sage Arts
It’s a meeting of the Americana minds, with Van Dyke Parks — the musical equivalent of Currier & Ives — producing and playing keyboards on the latest effort from one of America’s greatest old-timey bands.
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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.
