Johnny Cash's final road to redemption and artistic fulfillment starts here...
Like all her best work it will continue to unfold and grow with repetition.
If you don't own it, buy it tomorrow. Life, literally, isn't complete without it.
All in all this is a fine end piece to his trilogy, while it also seems to signal a...
For lovers of quality pop with a brain this is no little achievement.
While it was quite obviously a joy for the musicians involved, one feels that it...
Any way you look at it, this is a massive album.
It's a terrific ride from start to finish.
It inhabits a world entirely of its own.
In one fell swoop he's thrown off his dour image, ushering in a host of new fans by...
No amount of subsequent weirdness could detract from this achievement.
The only regret is that you know she's talented enough to rise above such ordinary fare.
This girl was born to testify.
No one is making such criminally underrated and startlingly original music, in any...
Let critics bray, but one suspects that this album will, in ten years, be a treasured...
Fans will go crazy, the rest of us may be a little less keen.
Anyone who was there at the time will find themselves oddly warmed by much of this...
They only had a few hits, but lived on for long in the minds of those in the know.
Al Green will still be knocking 'em dead both in the chapel and the concert halls...
The Zutons are, you'll be relieved to know, on fine form.
He shows enough humorous self-effacement to make up for any past crimes of pride.
Ultimately there's little here that the band haven't done before.
...testament to the man's place at the very epicentre of modern American music.
A warm and generous introduction to the man known as the Chairman of the Board
About the frailty of love and mystery of individual existence.
It can be recommended as a solid gold accompaniment to long summer evenings to come.
Morrison's blitzed lounge singer act.
Purveyors of the some of the silkiest, smoothest ballads ever to be committed to vinyl.
If you've had enough of the girls crowding the field, and you need a feel-good piece...
It opened up Mayfield's career to the extent that he shook off the chains of...
The (arctic) circle, remains unbroken, then...
An acknowledged classic, De La Soul's debut album now resides in something of a vacuum.
This teenager may well become a force to reckon with.
To paraphrase the song, Brandi, you're a fine girl...
Turner and Kane shake off all those blatant copyists and stay at least three steps...
A classic with not a note out of place.
In ten years you'll still probably be hard pressed to find anything that sounds...
It's a winning, warming blend
The meeting of the album's title is Sco meeting country blues.
Amazingly proves that after 45 years they've still got live, if you want it
For a brief spell in the '70s, it was still possible to explore multiple genres...
Together the trio make the last stand for roots culture.
He remains a bafflingly word-of-mouth proposition.
It's up to you, the horizontal listener, as to whether you can still really hear it.
On this evidence his voice still has more than enough authority to carry it off.
Pearl remains a jewel in the short, gaudy career of a true original.
Attack & Release is a remarkably easy album to like.
Strange Unison is, then, an accessible and finely executed piece of trio work.
The message was that black music could be reclaimed and re-tooled as a semantic crowbar.
It may look simple, but only a master like Van could pull this off.
