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Foo Fighters drummer’s band releases CD
May 12, 2010 – 11:54 am | Comments
Foo Fighters drummer’s band releases CD

Courtyard Hounds: “Courtyard Hounds” (Columbia)

★★★ 1/2

Almost every song on this self-titled album brings the same two adjectives to mind: pretty and personal. Written mostly by the Dixie Chicks’ Emily Robison with Martin Strayer, and mainly …

Hole returns with ‘Nobody’s Daughter’
May 5, 2010 – 1:58 pm | Comments
Hole returns with ‘Nobody’s Daughter’

Hole: ‘Nobody’s Daughter’ (Mercury)

★★★ 1/2

It may be true that if Hole frontwoman Courtney Love had never married Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain her band, Hole, may have labored on in obscurity — if it ever got off …

Jeff Beck’s latest shows Inventive guitar talents
April 28, 2010 – 12:40 pm | Comments
Jeff Beck’s latest shows Inventive guitar talents

Jeff Beck: “Emotion & Commotion” (Atco/Rhino)
★★★
Nearly 50 years into his sporadic career, Jeff Beck still has the capacity to invent new uses for his prodigious guitar talents. Here, he oscillates between jazz-blues fusion …

Nelson has come down from the mountain
April 21, 2010 – 12:47 pm | Comments
Nelson has come down from the mountain

Willie Nelson: ‘Country Music’ (Rounder)
★★★
For his Rounder Records debut, Willie Nelson didn’t just go country; he came down from the mountain. And settled on the porch. With producer T-Bone Burnett, the man behind “O …