New Releases

New Releases From Keegan DeWitt, La Femme, Lonnie Walker

Keegan DeWitt Keegan DeWitt, a Nashville-based songwriter and composer, is releasing a new limited edition 7″ single, featuring the songs “Two Hearts” and “Reluctance” (Theory 8 Records). DeWitt, who’s also scored several films (Dance Party, USA, Quiet City, and Cold Weather), released an EP this summer via Daytrotter, significantly marking the music website’s first foray [...]

Eric Clapton: Clapton

Eric Clapton Clapton (REPRISE) Rating: Eric Clapton has always been a songwriter’s guitarist. Unlike many blues players who only look at a lyric as something that gives them a break between solos, Clapton has always respected the work of such writers as Bob Marley (“I Shot the Sheriff”), John Hiatt (“Riding With the King”), and, [...]

Kenny Chesney: <i>Hemingway’s Whiskey</i>

Kenny Chesney: Hemingway’s Whiskey

Kenny Chesney Hemingway’s Whiskey (BNA) Rating: Love him or hate him, it’s impossible not to respect Kenny Chesney. Here’s a guy who didn’t embark on a music career until he was college age, who’s kinda short and slight and prematurely bald, who decided what he wanted and went out and got it, and has only [...]

Old 97′s: <i>The Grand Theatre Volume One</i>

Old 97′s: The Grand Theatre Volume One

Old 97′s The Grand Theatre Volume One (NEW WEST) Rating: Saturday night is all right for fighting. Sunday morning is for coming down. The first part of the weekend? Well, that’s not so simple. “Every night is Friday night without you,” sings Rhett Miller on the Old 97’s latest album, The Grand Theatre Volume One. [...]

Elvis Costello: National Ransom

Elvis Costello National Ransom (HEAR MUSIC) Rating: On 2009’s Secret, Profane & Sugarcane, Elvis Costello teamed with producer T Bone Burnett and a talented string band for a set of heartfelt numbers which mined various stripes of the Americana ore. This 2010 follow-up features almost the same band (with guest appearances by Vince Gill, Buddy [...]