The double album “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” is his first of original material in eight years

“Pick Me Up Off the Floor,” her eight studio release was not expected so soon. Says Jones: “I don’t know if I was just in a zone or if this process turned it on, but I’ve felt more creative in the last year than I ever have,”

On her new album “World on the Ground” she sings all about her small Texas hometown with songs that play out like a collection of short stories.

Their love for the tragic-comedy of Tom Waits’ songs is what makes the album “Pawn Shop Radio” so irresistible.

On his 20th studio album, “Ghosts of West Virginia,” Steve Earle is reaching out. He says, “I wanted to speak to people that didn’t necessarily vote the way that I did, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have anything in common.”

“Reunions” is the follow up to two previous albums that both won Grammy awards, so expectations are high. That standard of excellence is upheld on the new release and then some.

As one of the few performers left from the grunge rock era, he's feeling survivor’s guilt on “Straight Songs of Sorrow.”

A duo of sisters, Rebecca and Megan Lovell, have released their fifth album in six years, “Self Made Man.” Like most siblings they have extraordinary vocal harmonies but what sets them apart is the harmony their guitars create on these bluesy rock originals, or as they call it “guitarmony.”

Her righteous fury has never been more ignited that on her new album “Good Souls, Better Angels.”

Ed O'Brien of Radiohead's “Earth” is not only a great debut, it’s one of the best albums of the year period.