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Reviews by Michael include:
CDs:
Greg Adkins
• Chase the Western Sky
Pete Alderton
• Living on Love
Luther Allison
• Underground
American String Conspiracy
• Help the Poor
Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem
• Big Old Life
Elana Arian
• How to Stand in the Rain
Caren Armstrong
• Everything
Mac Arnold & Plate Full o' Blues
• Backbone & Gristle
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
Birch Creek Band
• Celtic Enchantment
Elvin Bishop
• Booty Bumping
Michael Black
• Michael Black
Blind Boys of Alabama
• Take the High Road
The Julian Bliss Septet
• A Tribute to Benny Goodman
Rory Block
• Shake 'Em On Down
Deanna Bogart
• Pianoland
Natasha Borzilova
• Cheap Escape
Josh Boyd & the V.I.P Band
• Josh Boyd & the V.I.P Band
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
Chris Cain
• So Many Miles
Michael Camilo
• Spirit of the Moment
Masha Campagne
• Like Water, Like Air
Liz Carlisle
• Big Dreams
The Cash Box Kings
• Black Toppin'
• Holler & Stomp
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
• The Essential Popa Chubby
• The Fight is On
Patrick Clifford
• American Wake
Commander Cody
• Dopers, Drunks & Everyday Losers
Lui Collins
• Closer
Contino
• Back Porch Dogma
Peter Cooper
• Mission Door
Phil Creane & the Changing Band
• Tommy Black & the Twelve Days of Lucy
Albert Cummings
• Feel So Good: Live
Anthony da Costa
• Typical American Tragedy
Dafni
• Sweet Time
Dala
• Girls of the North Country
Barbara Dane
• Anthology of American Folk Songs
Debbie Davies
• Blues Blast
Gareth Davies-Jones
• Chasing Light
Mary Bridget Davies
• Wanna Feel Somethin'
Dead Men's Hollow
• Angels' Share
• Death Must be a Woman
Tom Dempsey/Tim Ferguson Quartet
• Beautiful Friendship
Krista Detor
• Cover Their Eyes
• The Silver Wood: Wintersongs
Mike Dougherty
• Southern Comfort
Little Arthur Duncan
• Live at Rosa's Blues Lounge
Boyd Lee Dunlop
• The Lake Reflections
John Dyer
• GoStayPlay
Wendy Ealey
• Out of the Shower
Ronnie Earl
• Spread the Love
Honeyboy Edwards
• Roamin' & Ramblin'
Sena Ehrhardt
• Leave the Light On
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
Fado em Si Bemol
• QB (Quanto Baste)
Fayssoux
• Early
Fiddleworms
• See the Light
Fitzgerald & Beach
• Pilot Me
Kelly Flint
• Drive All Night
Damon Fowler
• Sugar Shack
Fox & Branch
• Hot Time
Janie Fricke
• Country Side of Bluegrass
Roy Gaines & his Orchestra
• Tuxedo Blues
Galley Beggar
• Galley Beggar
Abbie Gardner
• Hope
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
Mark Wayne Glasmire
• MWG
The Goat Roper Rodeo Band
• Hail the Remedy
Eve Goldberg
• A Kinder Season
Golden Bough
• Pirate Gold
James Gordon
• Coyote Calling
The Grascals
• Dance Til Your Stockings are Hot & Ravelin'
Grasstowne
• Kicking Up Dust
Hayley Griffiths
• Celtic Rose
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family
• Go Waggaloo
Andreas Hagiioannu
• Far & Wide
Spook Handy
• Whatcha Gonna Do
Harper
• Day by Day
• Stand Together
Chris Harper & the Sharade Band
• Blues is My Life
Corey Harris
• Zion Crossroads
Debbie Hennessey
• Good as Gone
Carolyn Hester
• The Tradition Years
• We Dream Forever
Susan Hickman
• Susan Hickman
The Pamela Hines Trio
• Drop2
Dave Hole
• Rough Diamond
James Hollingsworth
• Coming Home to Stay
John Lee Hooker Jr.
• Live in Istanbul, Turkey
Ellis Hooks
• Another Saturday Morning
Barbara J. Hunt
• Play My Heart
The Illegitimate Sons
• American Music
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
Jeordie
• Jeordie & the Mixology Project
Joe Jewell Quartet
• Every Note Counts
John Jorgenson
• Istiqbal Gathering
• One Stolen Night
• Ultraspontane
Candye Kane
• Sister Vagabond
• Superhero
Kevin Kane
• American Songs
Kieran Kane
• Somewhere Beyond the Roses
Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch & Fats Kaplin
• Lost John Dean
Peter Karp
• Shadows & Cracks
Peter Karp & Sue Foley
• He Said, She Said
Mitch Kashmar
• Live at Labatt
Megan King
• Pretty Songs
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
Mike Longo Trio +2
• To My Surprise
Hamilton Loomis
• Ain't Just Temporary
Los Fabulocos featuring Kid Ramos
• Los Fabulocos
Louisiana Red
• When My Mama Was Living
Lauren Lucas
• If I was Your Girl
Lucy Angel
• Lucy Angel
Al Maniscalco Quartet
• One Blessed Day
John-Alex Mason
• Town & Country
Eagle McCall
• Song of the Seas
The McClymonts
• Wrapped Up Good
Barrelhouse Buck McFarland
• Alton Blues
Ian McFeron
• Love Me Blue
Tia McGraff
• Day in My Shoes
Andrew McKnight
• Something Worth Standing For
Sarah McQuaid
• The Plum Tree & the Rose
Melanie
• Ever Since You Never Heard of Me
The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Tales from Windsor's Tavern
Lisa Dawn Miller
• Fly Away
Coco Montoya
• The Essential Coco Montoya
Shelley Morningsong
• Out of the Ashes
Van Morrison
• Under Review 1964-1974
The Mugwumps
• The Mugwumps
Megan Munroe
• One More Broken String
Michael Martin Murphey
• Tall Grass & Cool Water
Kenny Neal
• Let Life Flow
The Near Myths
• Words to Burn
John Nemeth
• Love Me Tonight
• Name the Day
The Nighthawks
• Last Train to Bluesville
John Jacob Niles
• An Evening with John Jacob Niles
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
• Speed of Life
Eddie Gip Noble
• In the Lite of Things
Wayne Noyce & the Combine Pilots
• It's All Good
Mick Overman & the Maniacs
• Good Thing Happen
Jimmy Owens
• The Monk Project
Guy Penrod
• Breathe Deep
Lydia Pense & Cold Blood
• Transfusion
Pinetop Perkins
• Heaven
Al Petteway & Amy White
• Acoustic Journey
Ana Popovic
• Blind for Love
Luke Powers
• Picture Book
Anne Price
• Very Early Anne
The Prodigals
• Momentum
Joe Pug
• The Great Despiser
Kristi Rae
• Things We Had to Let Go
Johnny Rawls
• Memphis Still Got Soul
Reckless Kelly
• Was Here
Piano Red
• The Lost Atlanta Tapes
Sarah Goslee Reed
• It's About Time
Jason Ricci & New Blood
• Done With the Devil
Robin Rogers
• Back in the Fire
• Treat Me Right
The Roys
• Lonesome Whistle
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
Pete Seeger
• The Storm King
Talia Segal
• Nonprophet
Vince Seneri
• The Prince's Groove
Jon Shain
• Army Jacket Winter
Daryl Shawn
• In Place
Ben Sidran
• Nick's Bump
Ian Siegal & the Youngest Sons
• The Skinny
Woody Simmons
• Double Geared Lightning
Ricky Skaggs
• A Skaggs Family Christmas, Vol. 2
Magic Slim
• The Essential Magic Slim
• Midnight Blues
• Raising the Bar
Magic Slim & the Teardrops
• Bad Boy
Debi Smith
• The Soprano
Charlie Sohmer
• Dying to Have a Good Time
The Steeldrivers
• Hammer Down
• Reckless
Saffron Summerfield
• The Stonemason's Dream
Swamp Cabbage
• Squeal
Swingadelic
• Toussantville
Cassie Taylor
• Blue
Melvin Taylor
• Beyond the Burning Guitar
Ashley Lennon Thomas
• Sparkle Plenty
Al Thompson Jr.
• City Mainstream
Tingstad & Rumbel
• Comfort & Joy
The Alex Tintinalli Band
• Nothing to Lose
Walter Trout
• Full Circle
Tanya Tucker
• My Turn
Sal Valentino
• Dreamin' Man
various artists
• Alan Lomax in Haiti
• Anthology of the Twelve String Guitar
• The Bluesmasters, Vol. II
• Pa's Fiddle
Marion Walsh
• Home to Home
Wendy Weatherby
• Sunset Song
Kevin Welch
• A Patch of Blue Sky
Monster Mike Welch
• Just Like It Is
Wensday
• Torch Rock
Susan Werner
• The Gospel Truth
West of Memphis
• Honey Pie
Cheryl Wheeler
• Pointing at the Sun
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
Paul Winter Sextet
• Count Me In 1962-1963
John York & Kim Fowley
• West Coast Revelation
Pamela York
• Lay Down This World
Big Bob Young
• Hard Way to Make a Dollar
Mike Zito
• Pearl River
• Today
The Zozo Sisters
• Adieu False Heart
Books:
Scott Alarik
• Revival: a Folk Music Novel
Anita Amirrezvani
• The Blood of Flowers
Benjamin Appel
• Life & Death of a Tough Guy
• Sweet Money Girl
Rae Armentrout
• Money Shot
Raymond L. Atkins
• The Front Porch Prophet
• Sorrow Wood
Christopher Balzano
• Dark Woods: Cults, Crime & Paranormal in the Freetown State Forest
Sandra Balzo
• Running on Empty
Adrienne Barbeau
• Love Bites
Jonathan Baumbach
• You (or the Invention of Memory)
Charles Baxter
• Gryphon: New & Selected Stories
Peter S. Beagle
• The Last Unicorn
Raymond Benson
• Dark Side of the Morgue
Christina Binkley
• Winner Takes All
John Boessenecker
• When Law was in the Holster
John M. Borack
• John Lennon: Life is What Happens
Tim Bowling
• Fathom
Simon Brett
• Blotto, Twinks & the Dead Dowager Duchess
Gil Brewer
• A Devil for O'Shaugnessy
• The Three Way Split
Heather Brewer
• Legacy of Tril #1: Soulbound
W.R. Burnett
• Iron Man
• It's Always Four O'Clock
Lorna Byrne
• Angels in My Hair
James M. Cain
• The Cocktail Waitress
Joseph Campbell
• The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Myke Cole
• Shadow Ops: Control Point
Max Allan Collins
• Seduction of the Innocent
Allan Cooper
• The Alma Elegies
Christopher Coppes
• Messages from the Light
Miles Corwin
• Kind of Blue
Ian Morgan Cron
• Chasing Francis
Jada M. Davis
• One for Hell
Mark De Castrique
• The Sandburg Connection
Vicki Delany
• Among the Departed
Tony Delvecchio & Rich Herschlag
• Sinatra, Gotti & Me
John F. Dobbyn
• Frame Up
Larry Dossey
• The Power of Premonitions
David Eagleman
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Jennifer Cody Epstein
• The Painter from Shanghai
Loren D. Estleman
• The Left-Handed Dollar
Robert Fate
• Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption
Christa Faust
• Choke Hold
Robert Finley, Patrick Freisen, Aisllinn Hunter, Anne Simpson & Jan Zwicky
• A Ragged Pen: Essays on Poetry & Memory
A.S. Fleischman
• Danger in Paradise
• Malay Woman
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
Stanton T. Friedman
• Flying Saucers & Science
Phillip Gardner
• Gateways to the Otherworld
John Grange
• Super-Detective Flip Book: Legion of Robots/Murder's Migrants
H. Terrell Griffin
• Bitter Legacy
Donald Hamilton
• Death of a Citizen
• The Wrecking Crew
Hank Hanegraaff
• Christianity in Crisis: 21st Century
Orrie Hitt
• The Cheaters
• Dial "M" for Man
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
Edward G. Kardos
• Zen Master Next Door
John A. Keel
• The Mothman Prophecies
Bradford Keeney
• Shamanic Christianity
Mac Kenney
• My Pictures, My Words
Monica Kidd
• Actualities
Joseph Koenig
• False Negative
Justin Kramon
• Finny
Mark Kurlansky
• The Food of a Younger Land
Camilla Lackberg
• The Ice Princess
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
Ed Lynskey
• Lake Charles
Gary Marcus
• Guitar Zero: The New Musician & the Science of Learning
Stephen Hawley Martin
• The Science of Life After Death
Jack McDevitt
• Firebird
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
Michael Norman
• Skeleton Picnic
James H. Nottage, editor
• Generations
Jim Palmer
• Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God
• Wide Open Spaces
Michael Palmer
• The First Patient
Dennis Palumbo
• Fever Dream
Elise Paschen & Rebecca Presson Mosby, editors
• Poetry Speaks Expanded
Steven Polansky
• The Bradbury Report
Maggie Pouncey
• Perfect Reader
Bill Pronzini
• Femme
• Kinsmen
Peter Rabe
• Anatomy of a Killer
• The Return of Marvin Palaver
• A Shroud for Jesso
• The Silent Wall
Mickey Zucker Reichert
• I, Robot: To Protect
Kristopher Reisz
• Tripping to Somewhere
Jesse Rice
• The Church of Facebook
Kat Ricker
• Something Familiar
Lawrence Rodgers & Jerrold Hirsch, editors
• America's Folklorist: B.A. Botkin & American Culture
Timme Rosenkrantz
• Harlem Jazz Adventures
Rob Salkowitz
• Comic-Con & the Business of Pop Culture
Elizabeth D. Samet
• Soldier's Heart
Peter Sanger
• Aiken Drum
Matthew Shenoda
• Somewhere Else
Evie Shockley
• The New Black
Robert Silverberg
• Blood on the Mink
Cheryl Simone
• Midnights With the Mystic
Johanna Skibsrud
• Late Nights With Wild Cowboys
Jeffrey Small
• The Breath of God
Patricia Smith
• Teahouse of the Almighty
Philip Smith
• Walking Through Walls
Thomas Noel Smith
• "Dust" & Other Poems
Jose Carlos Somoza
• Zig Zag
Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins
• Complex 90
• The Consummata
• Lady, Go Die
Carmine Starnino
• With English Subtitles
Daniel Stashower
• The Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum Murders
• The Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Floating Lady Murder
Mark Steele
• Christianish
Andrew Steinmetz
• Eva's Threepenny Theatre
Charlie Stella
• Johnny Porno
• Rough Riders
S. Thomas Summers
• Death Settled Well
Robert Love Taylor
• Blind Singer Joe's Blues
John Terpstra
• Two or Three Guitars
Dave Thompson
• The Wit & Wisdom of Ozzie Osborne
Robert V. Thompson
• A Voluptuous God
Harry Thurston
• Broken Vessel
Mark Van De Logt
• War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army
Michael Waters
• Darling Vulgarity
Donald E. Westlake
• The Comedy is Finished
T.H. White
• The Once & Future King
Harry Whittington
• Body & Passion
• Like Mink, Like Murder
• To Find Cora
Annie Wilder, editor
• Trucker Ghost Stories
Gordon Williams
• The Siege of Trencher's Farm
Elizabeth Willis
• Address
Thomas Wiloch
• Screaming in Code
D.L. Wilson
• Unholy Grail
Ariel S. Winter
• The Twenty-Year Death
Christopher E. Wolf
• Haunted Highways & Ghostly Travelers
Al Young
• Something About the Blues
Graphic Novels:
Modesty Blaise: Live Bait
Interviews:
Red Molly: poised for the leap
Kevin Welch: keeps on writing songs
Performances:
Melanie
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
The Outlaws
Red Molly & The Seldom Scene
Movies:
Alien Attack Collection
Around
Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass
Beautiful Darling
Girls Rock
A History of Christianity
Mark of the Beast
Step Up: Revolution
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Michael Scott Cain