Rachel Horn
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In the lead-off track from the first album Rush has made in his home state, the Louisiana bluesman delivers a deeply funky warning to a cadre of potential back-door men. -
At 75, the man still sings like an angel who's swallowed a wah-wah pedal. Aaron Neville's new album feels like a manifesto — a declaration of self by an artist who's had time to figure it out.
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Baldly earnest and without a tinge of irony, Neville's song responds to the veteran singer's signature tune, "Tell It Like It Is." -
The gospel-inspired soul singer has a knack for imbuing narrative tropes with new meaning, transforming them into stories that couldn't be anyone else's.
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The Boston-bred soul singer with the meter-pinning voice invokes his gospel schooling in this raw, faith-filled hymn. -
"If the truth comes through on those speakers ... of what I just did, then I believe it," the soul legend says. This Is Where I Live is Bell's first album for Stax Records in more than 40 years. -
Alabama Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard snarls, sputters and howls through a rock and roll stomper that ain't messing around.
