Michael Scott Cain

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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