Music Reviews


Includes both album and singles. Arranged alphabetically, by artist. See also chronological listing.

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A

Ryan Adams
Rock and Roll

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
Cold Roses
Jacksonville City Nights
"The Hardest Part"
(Song of the Week)

Aerosmith
Honkin' on Bobo

Tori Amos
"Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)"
(Song of the Week)

Antony and the Johnsons
"Fistful of Love"
(Song of the Week)

Melissa auf der Maur
"Taste You (French Version)"
(Song of the Week)

B

The Band
"Long Black Veil" (Crimes on .45)

Black Box Recorder
"Kidnapping an Heiress" (Crimes on .45)

Blanche
"Who's To Say"
(Song of the Week)

Blue Rodeo
Are You Ready
"Can't Help Wondering Why"
(Song of the Week)

JamesBlunt?
Back to Bedlam
"You're Beautiful"
(Song of the Week)

Body Count
"Cop Killer" (Crimes on .45)

Tracy Bonham
"Something Beautiful"
(Song of the Week)

Billy Bragg
Must I Paint You a Picture?: The Essential Billy Bragg

Bright Eyes
"When the President Talks to God...l"
(Song of the Week)

Greg Brown
Going Driftless: An Artist's Tribute to Greg Brown (Various Artists)

The Browne Sisters and George Cavanaugh
"This Land is Mine"
(Song of the Week)

C

Jorge Calderon and Jennifer Warnes
"Keep Me in Your Heart" (Song of the Week)

Carbon Leaf
"A L
ife Less Ordinary" (Song of the Week)

The Cardigans
"For What It's Worth" (Song of the Week)

Peter Case
"Wake Up Call" (Song of the Week)

The Cash Brothers
How Was Tomorrow

Johhny Cash
Murder
"Folsom Prison Blues" (Crimes on .45)

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
"There She Goes/My Beautiful World"
(Song of the Week)

Ray Charles
"Here We Go Again" (with Norah Jones) (Song of the Week)

The Charlie Hunter Quartet
Songs From the Analog Playground

The Chieftains
Down the Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions

Eric Clapton
Me and Mr. Johnson

The Clash
"Wrong 'em Boyo" (Crimes on .45)

Joe Cocker
"Everybody Hurts" (Song of the Week)

Leonard Cohen
"Go No More A-Roving" (Song of the Week)

Elvis Costello
"Watching the Detectives" (Crimes on .45)

Cowboy Junkies
One Soul Now
Early 21st Century Blues
"December Skies" (Song of the Week)
"Run for Your Life" (Song of the Week)
"Run for Your Life" (Crimes on .45)

Rodney Crowell
"The Obscenity Prayer (Give It to Me)" (Song of the Week)

D

The Drifters
Up on the Roof/Under the Boardwalk

Drive-By Truckers
"The Day John Henry Died"
(Song of the Week)

Bob Dylan
The Bootleg Series, Volume 6: Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall
The Bootleg Series, Volume 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack
Live at the Gaslight: 1962
"If You Gotta Go, Go Now"
(Song of the Week)
"Barbara Allen"
(Song of the Week)
Dylan Country (Var
ious Artists)

E

Steve Earle
Just an American Boy: The Audio Documentary
"F the CC"
(Song of the Week)

Kathleen Edwards
"Back to Me"
(Song of the Week)
"In State" (Crimes on .45)

F

50 Cent
"Hustler's Ambition" (Crimes on .45)

John Fogerty
"Deja Vu All Over Again"
(Song of the Week)

Kinky Friedman
"The Ballad of Charles Whitman" (Crimes on .45)

G

Garbage
"Why Do You Love Me?"
(Song of the Week)

Mary Gauthier
"Mercy Now"
(Song of the Week)

Gowan
"A Criminal Mind
" (Crimes on .45)

Great Big Sea
"Captain Kidd"
(Song of the Week)

Patty Griffin
Impossible Dream

Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie: This Machine Kills Fascists (DVD)

H

Petra Haden
Petra Haden Sings "The Who Sell Out"
"I Can't Reach You" (Song of the Week)

John Hammond
"Murder in the Red Barn" (Crimes on .45)

Herbie Hancock
"When Love Comes to Town" (with Joss Stone and Johnny Lang) (Song of the Week)

Sarah Harmer
All of Our Names

John Hiatt
Master of Disaster
"Master of Disaster" (Song of the Week)

The Charlie Hunter Quartet
Songs From the Analog Playground

I

J

Mick Jagger
"Lonely Without You (This Christmas)" (with Joss Stone) (Song of the Week)

The Jayhawks
"All the Right Reasons" (Song of the Week)

Norah Jones
"Here We Go Again" (with Ray Charles) (Song of the Week)

K

Diana Krall
The Girl In The Other Room

L

Patti Labelle
"I'll Stand By You"
(Song of the Week)

Johnny Lang
"When Love Comes to Town" (with Herbie Hancock and Joss Stone) (Song of the Week)

Bettye LaVette
"
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got"
(Song of the Week)

Avril Lavigne
Under My Skin

Ben Lee
"Catch My Disease"
(Song of the Week)

Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
"Handle with Care" (Song of the Week)

Los Lobos with Bobby Womack
"Wicked Rain/Across 110th Street"
(Song of the Week)

M

M.I.A.
"Galang"
(Song of the Week)

Jesse Malin
"Hotel Columbia"
(Song of the Week)

Charlotte Marin
"Wild Horses"
(Song of the Week)

Paul McCartney (with David A. Stewart)
"Whole Life"
(Song of the Week)

Sarah McLachlan and Robbie Robertson
"World on Fire" (remix)
(Song of the Week)

Buddy Miller
"With God on Our Side"
(Song of the Week)

Alanis Morisette
"Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)"
(Song of the Week)

Van Morrison
Once in a Blue Moon
Magic Time
"Carry On Regardless"
(Song of the Week)

N

O

P

Graham Parker
Another Country
Songs of No Consequence

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Something Big"
(Crimes on .45)

Madeleine Peyroux
"Don't Wait Too Long"
(Song of the Week)

John Prine
Fair and Square

The Proclaimers
"You Should Have Been Loved"
(Song of the Week)

Q

R

R.E.M.
Around the Sun

Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Dani California"
(Song of the Week)

Jonathan Richman
"Vincent Van Gogh"
(Song of the Week)

Richmond Fontaine
Post to Wire

Josh Ritter
"Girl in the War"
(Song of the Week)

Chris Robinson & The New Earth Mud
"40 Days"
(Song of the Week)

Robbie Robertson and Sarah McLachlan
"World on Fire" (remix)
(Song of the Week)

Rockpile
Seconds of Pleasure

The Rolling Stones
"
Sweet Neo Con" (Song of the Week)

Tom Russell
"Tonight We Ride"
(Song of the Week)
Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs

S

Mindy Smith
"Come to Jesus"
(Song of the Week)

Patti Smith
Trampin'

Bruce Springsteen
The Essential Bruce Springsteen
Devils and Dust
"Nebraska" (Crimes on .45)

Cat Stevens
"I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun" (Crimes on .45)

David A. Stewart (with Paul McCartney)
"Whole Life"
(Song of the Week)

Joss Stone
The Soul Sessions
"Lonely Without You (This Christmas)" (with Mick Jagger) (Song of the Week)
"When Love Comes to Town" (with Herbie Hancock and Johnny Lang) (Song of the Week)

T

George Thorogood & The Destroyers
"Cocaine Blues" (Crimes on .45)

The Tragically Hip
In Between Evolution
"38 Years Old" (Crimes on .45)
"Summer's Killing Us" (Song of the Week)
Yer Favourites

Twista
"Hope" (featuring Faith Evans)
(Song of the Week)

U

U2
"Vertigo" (Song of the Week)

V

W

Rufus Wainwright
"My Funny Valentine"
(Song of the Week)

Tom Waits
"Day Afte
r Tomorrow"
(Song of the Week)

Jennifer Warnes and Jorge Calderon
"Keep Me in Your Heart" (Song of the Week)

Jim White
"The Wound That Never Heals
" (Crimes on .45)

The Who
Then & Now! 1964-2004

Dar Williams
The Beauty of the Rain

Lucinda Williams
World Without Tears

Wilson Phillips
California

Bobby Womack (with Los Lobos)
"Wicked Rain/Across 110th Street"
(Song of the Week)

Steve Wynn
Static Transmission

Riding Shotgun
"James River Incident" (Crimes on .45)
"Cindy, It Was Always You" (Song of the Week
)

X

Y

Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Greendale
Greendale (2nd edition)
"
Prairie Wind"
(Song of the Week)

Z

Warren Zevon
"Jeannie Needs a Shooter" (Crimes on .45)
The Wind

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Beautiful: A Tribute To Gordon Lightfoot

Dylan Country

Going Driftless: An Artist's Tribute to Greg Brown

Hard Revolution: The Soundtrack to the Novel by George Pelecanos

Hot Rods and Custom Classics

Kill Bill Volume 1 Original Soundtrack

Rock Against Bush, Volume 1

Shrek: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

The Singing Detective Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

School of Rock Soundtrack

Walk the Line: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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