Dwight Twilley

47 Moons

Digital Musicworks International

Twilley serves as a case in point for why old-timers shouldn’t summarily be dismissed as washed-up, past their prime or simply having nothing to say.

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Rosco Gordon

No Dark in America

Skuntry/Dualtone

This is Gordon’s swan song, finished a few months before his death in July 2002 at the age of 74.

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Planet P Project

1931

Baby Boomer Music

“Why me?”

That was the name of a big hit by Planet P Project back in 1983. It’s also what fans have been asking themselves for 20 years, since the group previously only released two albums.

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Neal Morse

One

Metal Blade

Along with Sweden’s The Flower Kings, Los Angeles-based Spock’s Beard represented the cream of ’90s progressive rock. Neal Morse left the Beard to its own devices after fronting it for a decade, and “One” is his second solo album since then and fourth overall.

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Buddy Miller

Universal United House of Prayer

New West

Miller has been making great albums for 10 years and traditionally has gone the hardcore-country route. Here he takes a stripped-down, almost ambient approach and creates a delightfully dark fusion of blues, gospel and folk.

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