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Reviews by Michael include:
CDs:
Greg Adkins
• Chase the Western Sky
Pete Alderton
• Living on Love
Luther Allison
• Underground
Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem
• Big Old Life
Elana Arian
• How to Stand in the Rain
Caren Armstrong
• Everything
Butch Baldassari & John Mock
• Music of O'Carolan: Ireland's Bard
Eric Balkey
• My Sacred Heart
Bobby Bare Jr.'s Young Criminal's Starvation League
• The Longest Meow
Joe Beck, Santi Debriano & Thierry Arpino
• Tri07
Carey & Lurrie Bell
• Gettin' Up Live
Lurrie Bell
• Let's Talk About Love
Louie Bellson & Clark Terry
• Louie & Clark Expedition 2
Arlon Bennett
• Summer's Voice
Tab Benoit, with Louisiana's LeRoux
• Power of the Pontchartrain
Elvin Bishop
• Booty Bumping
Michael Black
• Michael Black
Natasha Borzilova
• Cheap Escape
Chuck Brodsky
• Tulips for Lunch
Ronnie Baker Brooks
• The Torch
Nappy Brown
• Long Time Coming
Cowboy Roy Brown
• Street Singer
Michael Jerome Browne
• Double
Craig Buhler
• Capistrano Sessions
Mimi Burns Band
• I Know You're Out There
Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm
• 2 Man Wrecking Crew
Holly Burton
• First Person Singular
• Little Seattlight
Jamie Byrd
• Garden of Days
Jonathan Byrd
• This is the New That
Michael Camilo
• Spirit of the Moment
Liz Carlisle
• Big Dreams
Albert Castiglia
• These are the Days
The Chambers Brothers
• People Get Ready
• Now
• Shout
• Feelin' the Blues
Popa Chubby
• Deliveries After Dark
• Electric Chubbyland, Vols. 1-2
Commander Cody
• Dopers, Drunks & Everyday Losers
Lui Collins
• Closer
Peter Cooper
• Mission Door
Albert Cummings
• Feel So Good: Live
Anthony da Costa
• Typical American Tragedy
Barbara Dane
• Anthology of American Folk Songs
Debbie Davies
• Blues Blast
Dead Men's Hollow
• Death Must be a Woman
Krista Detor
• Cover Their Eyes
• The Silver Wood: Wintersongs
Mike Dougherty
• Southern Comfort
Little Arthur Duncan
• Live at Rosa's Blues Lounge
John Dyer
• GoStayPlay
Wendy Ealey
• Out of the Shower
Honeyboy Edwards
• Roamin' & Ramblin'
Mallem Abdenbi El Gadari
• Gnawa Bambara
Jen Elliott & Bluestruck
• 8 Days Down
Sleepy John Estes
• On 80 Highway
• On the Chicago Blues Scene
Falkner Evans Trio
• Climbing the Gates
Fayssoux
• Early
Fitzgerald & Beach
• Pilot Me
Kelly Flint
• Drive All Night
Damon Fowler
• Sugar Shack
Fox & Branch
• Hot Time
Vicki Genfan
• Up Close & Personal
Bob Gibson
• The Bob Gibson Legacy Edition
• The Living Legend Years
Janine Gilbert-Carter
• A Song for You
Vance Gilbert
• Angels, Castles, Covers
Eve Goldberg
• A Kinder Season
Golden Bough
• Pirate Gold
Andreas Hagiioannu
• Far & Wide
Spook Handy
• Whatcha Gonna Do
Harper
• Day by Day
Chris Harper & the Sharade Band
• Blues is My Life
Corey Harris
• Zion Crossroads
Debbie Hennessey
• Good as Gone
Carolyn Hester
• The Tradition Years
The Pamela Hines Trio
• Drop2
Dave Hole
• Rough Diamond
James Hollingsworth
• Coming Home to Stay
Ellis Hooks
• Another Saturday Morning
Barbara J. Hunt
• Play My Heart
The Insomniacs
• At Least I'm Not With You
Jacanda
• Skimming Stones
Li'l Son Jackson
• Vol. 1: Rockin' & Rollin'
Jemima James
• Book Me Back in Your Dreams
Joe Jewell Quartet
• Every Note Counts
John Jorgenson Quintet
• Ultraspontane
Kevin Kane
• American Songs
Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch & Fats Kaplin
• Lost John Dean
Peter Karp
• Shadows & Cracks
Mitch Kashmar
• Live at Labatt
Kingston Trio
• The Final Concert
• The Lost 1967 Album
Piers Lawrence Quartet
• Stolen Moments
Lea
• Great Big World
Leadbelly
• The Legend of Leadbelly
Albert Lee
• Road Runner
Hamilton Loomis
• Ain't Just Temporary
Los Fabulocos featuring Kid Ramos
• Los Fabulocos
Lauren Lucas
• If I was Your Girl
Al Maniscalco Quartet
• One Blessed Day
John-Alex Mason
• Town & Country
Barrelhouse Buck McFarland
• Alton Blues
Tia McGraff
• Day in My Shoes
Andrew McKnight
• Something Worth Standing For
The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Tales from Windsor's Tavern
Lisa Dawn Miller
• Fly Away
Shelley Morningsong
• Out of the Ashes
Van Morrison
• Under Review 1964-1974
The Mugwumps
• The Mugwumps
Megan Munroe
• One More Broken String
Kenny Neal
• Let Life Flow
The Near Myths
• Words to Burn
John Nemeth
• Love Me Tonight
John Jacob Niles
• An Evening with John Jacob Niles
Wayne Noyce & the Combine Pilots
• It's All Good
Mick Overman & the Maniacs
• Good Thing Happen
Lydia Pense & Cold Blood
• Transfusion
Al Petteway & Amy White
• Acoustic Journey
Ana Popovic
• Blind for Love
Luke Powers
• Picture Book
The Prodigals
• Momentum
Kristi Rae
• Things We Had to Let Go
Reckless Kelly
• Was Here
Sarah Goslee Reed
• It's About Time
Jason Ricci & New Blood
• Done With the Devil
Robin Rogers
• Treat Me Right
Bobby Rush
• Raw
Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Running for the Drum
Craig Schumacher
• New Shoes
Will Scott
• Gnawbone
Son Seals
• A Journey Through the Blues: The Son Seals Story
John Sebastian
• John B. Sebastian
Peggy Seeger
• Bring Me Home
Talia Segal
• Nonprophet
Vince Seneri
• The Prince's Groove
Jon Shain
• Army Jacket Winter
Ben Sidran
• Nick's Bump
Woody Simmons
• Double Geared Lightning
Magic Slim
• The Essential Magic Slim
• Midnight Blues
Debi Smith
• The Soprano
Charlie Sohmer
• Dying to Have a Good Time
Saffron Summerfield
• The Stonemason's Dream
Swamp Cabbage
• Squeal
Ashley Lennon Thomas
• Sparkle Plenty
Tingstad & Rumbel
• Comfort & Joy
The Alex Tintinalli Band
• Nothing to Lose
Walter Trout
• Full Circle
various artists
• Anthology of the Twelve String Guitar
Wendy Weatherby
• Sunset Song
Monster Mike Welch
• Just Like It Is
Wensday
• Torch Rock
Susan Werner
• The Gospel Truth
West of Memphis
• Honey Pie
Johnny Whitehorse
• Totemic Flute Chants
Pat Wictor
• Heaven is So High & I'm So Far Down
Webb Wilder & the Beatnecks
• Born to be Wilder
• More Like Me
Big Bob Young
• Hard Way to Make a Dollar
Mike Zito
• Today
The Zozo Sisters
• Adieu False Heart
Books:
Anita Amirrezvani
• The Blood of Flowers
Benjamin Appel
• Life & Death of a Tough Guy
• Sweet Money Girl
Raymond L. Atkins
• The Front Porch Prophet
• Sorrow Wood
Jonathan Baumbach
• You (or the Invention of Memory)
Raymond Benson
• Dark Side of the Morgue
Christina Binkley
• Winner Takes All
Tim Bowling
• Fathom
Gil Brewer
• A Devil for O'Shaugnessy
• The Three Way Split
Lorna Byrne
• Angels in My Hair
Joseph Campbell
• The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Allan Cooper
• The Alma Elegies
Ian Morgan Cron
• Chasing Francis
Larry Dossey
• The Power of Premonitions
David Eagleman
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Jennifer Cody Epstein
• The Painter from Shanghai
Robert Fate
• Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption
Robert Finley, Patrick Freisen, Aisllinn Hunter, Anne Simpson & Jan Zwicky
• A Ragged Pen: Essays on Poetry & Memory
Richard Foerster
• The Burning of Troy
Alice B. Fogel
• Strange Terrain: a Poetry Handbook for the Reluctant Reader
Charlotte Forbes
• The Good Works of Ayela Linde
Phillip Gardner
• Gateways to the Otherworld
John Grange
• Super-Detective Flip Book: Legion of Robots/Murder's Migrants
Hank Hanegraaff
• Christianity in Crisis: 21st Century
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
• Dark Power
• The Old Battle-Ax
Alexandra Holzer
• Growing Up Haunted
Hans Holzer
• The Spirit Connection
Karen Houle
• During
James David Jordan
• Forsaken
Deborah Kapchan
• Traveling Spirit Masters: Morrocan Gnawa Trance & Music in the Global Marketplace
Bradford Keeney
• Shamanic Christianity
Monica Kidd
• Actualities
Mercedes Lambert
• Dogtown/Soultown
William Lashner
• A Killer's Kiss
Ronnie Lee
• The Philosophy of Life: God, Wisdom & the World Psyche
Joyce Lucia
• Voice for Musicians
Scot McKnight & Hauna Ondrey
• Finding Faith, Losing Faith
Wade Miller
• Devil on Two Sticks
• The Killer
Liz Moore
• The Words of Every Song
Bill Myers & Dave Wimbish
• The Dark Side of the Supernatural
Jim Palmer
• Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God
• Wide Open Spaces
Michael Palmer
• The First Patient
Elise Paschen & Rebecca Presson Mosby, editors
• Poetry Speaks Expanded
Peter Rabe
• Anatomy of a Killer/A Shroud for Jesso
Kristopher Reisz
• Tripping to Somewhere
Jesse Rice
• The Church of Facebook
Kat Ricker
• Something Familiar
Elizabeth D. Samet
• Soldier's Heart
Peter Sanger
• Aiken Drum
Matthew Shenoda
• Somewhere Else
Johanna Skibsrud
• Late Nights With Wild Cowboys
Patricia Smith
• Teahouse of the Almighty
Philip Smith
• Walking Through Walls
Jose Carlos Somoza
• Zig Zag
Carmine Starnino
• With English Subtitles
Mark Steele
• Christianish
Andrew Steinmetz
• Eva's Threepenny Theatre
S. Thomas Summers
• Death Settled Well
Robert Love Taylor
• Blind Singer Joe's Blues
John Terpstra
• Two or Three Guitars
Robert V. Thompson
• A Voluptuous God
Harry Thurston
• Broken Vessel
Michael Waters
• Darling Vulgarity
Harry Whittington
• Body & Passion
• Like Mink, Like Murder
• To Find Cora
Thomas Wiloch
• Screaming in Code
D.L. Wilson
• Unholy Grail
Al Young
• Something About the Blues
Interviews:
Red Molly: poised for the leap
Kevin Welch: keeps on writing songs
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