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I suppose the best description of this five song EP would be "pop music." Every song here is accessible and mainstream.

This is an intriguing set of music. It largely lands in the general rock zone, but there variants here.

This new single is intriguing. The music is hard to categorize, really.

Folk music, jazz and more merge on this album. The sound here is more fully tied to mellower modes of earlier eras.

The newest disc from The Hangmen finds them plying their usual suspects of sounds. Those leanings range from punk rock to Americana, garage rock and more.

With modern rock, world music and more in the mix, this is a wide ranging release.

Fans of singer/songwriter music will find plenty to like here.

There is a lot of folk music here. This has a real singer/songwriter vibe.

I previously reviewed a couple of other releases from Matt Hannah.

The mix of sounds here ranges from alternative rock to heavy metal and more. This is hard rocking stuff.

This is a no-frills rock and roll album more than it is anything else. There is a DIY element to it, and as such at times it can feel a little awkward, particularly in terms of the vocals.

I love this album from start to finish. There is never a misstep.

As strong as this release is, and it is strong, I think I prefer the previous album I reviewed from Lynne Hanson to this one.

This is a bit of a mixed bag. Personally, I think this one probably works better as single songs than it does as an album of music.

This release is quite strong. It's overall based in a riff-driven hard rocking sound.

These guys have created an intriguing set here.

This is the second EP from this act. That means they are relatively new.

This new edition includes two live tracks.

Geff Harrison is probably best known for his work in the bands King Ping Meh and Twenty Sixty Six And Then.

With a solid slice of old school rock and more, this is a fun album.

This is a very unique and very effective disc.

Doing a track by track review of this is challenging. This disc is made up of 12 different mixes of the same song.

An acoustic guitar driven set, this brings me back to the early 1970s where soft rock, folky music and singer songwriter stylings dominated a lot of the radio dial.

For people in my age group, perhaps Ronnie Hawkwins was best known as the guy who gave musicians who would later form The Band some serious musical experience.

Blending healthy helping of country music and folk, this is classic Americana. The lyrical content ranges from topical subjects of societal scope to deeply personal.

This is sort of a concept album. When I say “sort of” perhaps it’s a full concept album and I’m missing some of the story.

Dan Hazlett is a good songwriter with a sound that captures a nice hunk of Americana.

I reviewed a previous set from this artist and said that it was a bit monolithic. I don't think that's a problem this time around.

There was a time in the 1970s when these guys represented classic rock at its finest. Of course, in those days we just called it “rock.”

This is quite a nice set. It’s a three CD release featuring three different live shows from Jeff Healey and company, ranging from 1989 to 2000.

This live recording from Jeff Healey dates all the way back to December 1988.

This live album from Jeff Healey is quite solid.

There are moments of brilliance here.

This group is a trio of musicians. This album showcases a lot of retro sounding numbers.

Magazine was an unusual album. It was originally released without the band’s permission.

This new disc from Heart is an interesting one. It includes several brand new songs along with a lot of revisits to old songs from the band.

This act has been described as “shoegazer country.”

There is a lot of Americana built into this. I'm reminded of Tom Petty a lot of the time here.

Fans of mainstream rock inspired by folk and country should give this new set a try. The five songs contained here all work well.

I previously reviewed another set from this act. I landed that one under prog, but this one definitely doesn't fit there.

This set is sort of a career-spanning release focused on Ken Hensley. The man was first known for his work with Uriah Heep, but he created quite a catalog of music over the years beyond those origins.

Sometimes less is more. I tend to think that’s the case here.

Given that Winter Solstice (in the Northern Hemisphere) represents the least amount of daylight of any day on the calendar, it's no wonder that so many cultures created holidays around that event.

If you have seen the movie "Psycho," you have heard much of this music. Bernard Herrmann wrote that score, but it was changed for use in the film.

I previously reviewed another set from Russ Hewitt. That one was an instrumental album featuring Latin guitar in arrangements that occupy a space between Latin music and fusion.

The British rock and roll scene was a lively one, even if they didn't get the same level of attention state-side as the American acts.

I am a big fan of reggae music. So, I'm kind of a natural to become a fan of something like this.

Artsy and yet rocking, this is intriguing stuff. The blend of sounds works quite well.

First of all, I have to admit that this album was actually released last year. Unfortunately, I got it after our December issue was live, and it didn't seem to make sense to review it for the February issue.

This album has a pretty good balance between mellower and more powered up pieces. Personally, I think that it could use a bit more range in terms of intensity and tempo, though.

This CD is a bit of a mixed bag. There are some strong pieces here.

Given the album title, it would be easy to expect something quite metallic.

If you are a fan of folk rock, country rock and other traditionally based melodic music, there will be plenty to like about this.

This is quite an effective set of songs. It has a style that ranges from country to blues to jazz and more.

This new album from guitar hero Gary Hoey, as the title suggests, is a bluesy one. Not everything here is set in the blues, but most of it is.

Stéphane Honde. Is apparently a French man who has relocated to Los Angeles.

The main guy here is Stephen Honde. He is the main writer, singer, multi-instrumentalist and much more.

The one thing you’ll notice first about this album is that Christina Holmes has an exceptional voice.

I've not heard of this act before. Once things start opening up. and I'm comfortable checking out live music, I'll be on the lookout for them, though.

Everything here is entertaining. A couple pieces, though, really push the envelope and get creative.

Blending blues, folk, rock and more, this lands pretty well in the territory of Americana.

These guys really have a handle on an old school hard rock sound. There musical mayhem has a lot of metal and hard rock in the mix.

Alternative rock with a lot of retro psychedelic stylings is the order of business on this disc.

Jackson Howard seems to be billed as an alternative rocker. That fits to some degree.

I suppose country music would be a pretty easy way to describe this.

This ten-inch, 45 RPM record features some alternate takes and unreleased songs from Howlin' Wolf. I love the raw blues edge that the music has.

This new 45-RPM vinyl record from Bear Family is great. It deals up several tracks from an important artist on one record.

One thing that I really can't stand about most modern pop music is the over-production. They tend synthesize and alter every sound (seemingly just because they can), sucking the very humanity out of it.

This new reissue finds Glenn Hughes well into his funk period on the first disc, and in disco-land on the second. Personally, I think the main album is more effective.

This Glenn Hughes solo album from 1995 is getting a deluxe reissue in a two-CD form. The first disc is the original album with one bonus track.

This is part of a series of new Glenn Hughes reissues. I have to say that this is one of my favorites.

This is one of the entries in the new series of Glenn Hughes reissues. Like the rest, they add a second CD, this time a concert from 2000.

This is part of a series of reissues of Glenn Hughes solo albums. It's one of the stronger releases in the set, too.

This is one in a series of new Glenn Hughes reissues. The first CD is a studio album (with one bonus track).

This new box set from Glenn Hughes compiles a number of bootleg live albums. There are seven CDs here from six different shows.

This massive CD box set gathers a batch of Glenn Hughes bootlegs. I'm guessing you could figure that out from the title, though, right?

The first thing that must be addressed is the "bootleg" in the title of this set. These recordings obviously started literally as bootlegs.

This is a long lost album from Humble Pie. It had been rejected by the group's label, and the music has been sitting in the vaults since 1975.

This new collection, as you can guess from the title, boxes up several bootleg live recordings from Humble Pie. As is clearly stated on the box, the recording quality isn't up to standards one would expect from a professional live album.

This is a collection of songs from Humble Pie that was recorded between 1974 and 1976. It features the lineup of Steve Marriott, Greg Ridley and Clem Clempson.

It seems that a lot of people get their music in small, single song dosages these days. That's probably a good thing for this album.

Parts of this are progressive. No, they aren't progressive rock, but they are progressive music.

For readers of Music Street Journal, Leslie Hunt is probably best known as the lead singer in the band District 97.

Leslie Hunt is best known to progressive rock fans as the lead singer of the band District 97. This is the second of two solo EPs she recently released.

I reviewed a previous set from Matthew Austin Hunt. This one is stronger than that disc.

This concert recording is from 2002. It features Ian Hunter with an orchestra.

This is sure to appeal most to fans of pop music.

I reviewed another disc from Jordan Hurwitz previously. She is a great singer.

It's probably no surprise to those who read Music Street Journal regularly that I'm not the target audience for modern pop music. I often find it to be lacking.

This is an unusual set. It’s very hard to categorize.

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