Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal pay tribute to a great blues duo
Old friends take their cue from Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee’s 1952 album Get On Board
Christian Lee Hutson – Quitters: A fitting soundtrack to a bleak age
Hutson is looking around him, wondering about truth, lies and fractured dreams
Hurray for the Riff Raff: Life on Earth – Utterly compelling
Alynda Segarra’s mostly excellent eighth album addresses issues close to home
Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Barn – veteran rockers enjoy their hay day
Into their late ’70s, Young and his band have no intention of turning down the guitars
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raise the Roof – Haunted loss tinged with beauty
Acclaimed duo reunite for an outstanding album of curatorial wonder
David Crosby: For Free review – More proof of his regeneration
Musician’s son produced his latest record featuring delicate and moving work
Van Morrison: Latest Record Project Volume 1 – Brilliance battered by bitterness
The great melodies and voice are sadly overshadowed by the conspiracy theories
Carsie Blanton: Love and Rage – singer and activist’s sparkling seventh album
The Virginia native is a class act who has preferred to hone her craft under the radar
Barry Gibb and Friends: Greenfields review – Game approach but doesn’t match originals
Volume one of Gibb Brothers’ songbook with Nashville twist
Bruce Springsteen: Letter to You review – Sublime meditations of loss, love, life and death
The Boss chases down the past on his riveting new album
Bruce Springsteen’s 2020: I swam. I kept busy. I made an album
The Boss on reuniting with the band, the coming election and his new record Letter To You
Emma Swift: Blonde on the Tracks review – Dylan with a twist
Eight Bob Dylan tracks are tenderly reimagined on this impressive collection
Margo Price: That’s How Rumours Get Started – Third album packs a punch
The songs are no longer firmly rooted in one sound while the lyrics are frank and feisty
Neil Young: Homegrown review – The album that hurt too much
Release postponed in 1975 after break up includes some worthy additions to canon
Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways review – A menacing and playful return
Dylan is on a roll. Woe betide anyone who gets in his way
Josh Okeefe: Bloomin’ review – Bob Dylan pastiche that hints at more
There is real character in songs such as We’re All the Same or Thoughts and Prayers
Former ‘Irish Times’ production chief Jim Cooke dies aged 88
Known to colleagues as ‘Cookie’, he gave ‘selflessly to the cause of The Irish Times’
Lucinda Williams: Good Souls Better Angels review – The tonic the world needs
A restoring curative for a fearful world, which beautifully balances vitriol and solace
The Lost Brothers: After the Fire After the Rain review – deeply reflective
Sixth album is not about standout moments, rather the deeply satisfying whole
The Band 50th Anniversary Boxset review - an album where the stars aligned
Music remixed to a new level of technology-enabled clarity which is quite revealing
Leonard Cohen: Thanks for the Dance – striking postscript to a remarkable life
Review: Cohen’s son Adam has shaped these final recordings into something memorable
Allison Moorer: Blood review – Stark and moving telling of a dark family tragedy
New album is singer’s attempt to make sense of the horror which has shaped her life
Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Colorado review – Powerful blast of private passion and public anger
Some of the veteran musician’s old crew reunite for songs with real emotional power
25 years of The Irish Times on the web – not forgetting its role in Saipan
In 1994 we took our pioneering, if stumbling, first steps on to the ‘world wide web’
The Rails: Cancel the Sun review – A stirring slice of Anglicana
The husband-and-wife team’s latest album expands on their folk-rock instincts
Eilen Jewell: Gypsy review – Country-folk-blues singer rolls with the changes
The Boise, Idaho native’s eighth album is worthy and enjoyable if not exceptional
Kate Holmquist: ‘A rule-breaker, trail blazer and a woman ahead of her time'
Hundreds attend service to remember writer who had the power to make words bloom just like the flowers in her garden
Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars review – His most radical and best album in years
By structuring the music around an orchestra, there is a remarkable freshness to his sound
Rory Gallagher: Blues – Giving Ireland’s greatest blues guitarist his due
This three-CD collection shows Gallagher had the chops to stand with the best of them
Michael McDermott: Orphans review – Self-lacerating reminiscences
Irish-American ditched drink and drugs, which had bedevilled his career
Yola: Walk Through Fire review – Impressive country-soul debut
With Dan Auerbach of Black Keys fame at the controls, Yola taps into tasty retro country-soul and Americana
Townes Van Zandt: Down Home and Abroad review – Double the classics
The troubled troubadour Townes Van Zandt had a voice like no other– and it's here in all it's fragile glory
Springsteen on Broadway album review: Stories of hurting and healing
We knew he could tell stories, but this double album bring it to a new level
Taoiseach launches book chronicling history of Irish Sunday newspapers
Media should cover personal stories ‘responsibly’, Varadkar says
Willie Nelson – Last Man Standing album review: Country star still going strong
Nelson proves he is still one of the genre’s greatest songwriters and singers
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