The Irish Times

Willie Nelson: A Beautiful Time – Reflections on the end of days

Fri Apr 29 2022 - 00:00

Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal pay tribute to a great blues duo

Old friends take their cue from Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee’s 1952 album Get On Board

Sat Apr 16 2022 - 00:00

Christian Lee Hutson – Quitters: A fitting soundtrack to a bleak age

Hutson is looking around him, wondering about truth, lies and fractured dreams

Fri Apr 01 2022 - 00:00

Hurray for the Riff Raff: Life on Earth – Utterly compelling

Alynda Segarra’s mostly excellent eighth album addresses issues close to home

Fri Feb 18 2022 - 05:00

The best of Times – Joe Breen on Irish Times design editor Andy Barclay

An Irishman’s Diary

Sun Feb 13 2022 - 19:15

Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Barn – veteran rockers enjoy their hay day

Into their late ’70s, Young and his band have no intention of turning down the guitars

Fri Dec 10 2021 - 05:00

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raise the Roof – Haunted loss tinged with beauty

Acclaimed duo reunite for an outstanding album of curatorial wonder

Fri Nov 19 2021 - 05:00

David Crosby: For Free review – More proof of his regeneration

Musician’s son produced his latest record featuring delicate and moving work

Fri Jul 23 2021 - 05:00

Van Morrison: Latest Record Project Volume 1 – Brilliance battered by bitterness

The great melodies and voice are sadly overshadowed by the conspiracy theories

Fri May 07 2021 - 05:00

Carsie Blanton: Love and Rage – singer and activist’s sparkling seventh album

The Virginia native is a class act who has preferred to hone her craft under the radar

Fri Apr 30 2021 - 05:00

Eric Church: Heart & Soul review – when the cliched fireworks die down, a hollowness remains

Fri Apr 16 2021 - 05:00

Jason Ringenberg: Rhinestoned – Robust twanging songs

Fri Apr 02 2021 - 05:00

Barry Gibb and Friends: Greenfields review – Game approach but doesn’t match originals

Volume one of Gibb Brothers’ songbook with Nashville twist

Fri Jan 08 2021 - 06:00

Bruce Springsteen: Letter to You review – Sublime meditations of loss, love, life and death

The Boss chases down the past on his riveting new album

Thu Oct 22 2020 - 06:00

Bruce Springsteen’s 2020: I swam. I kept busy. I made an album

The Boss on reuniting with the band, the coming election and his new record Letter To You

Sat Oct 17 2020 - 05:00

Emma Swift: Blonde on the Tracks review – Dylan with a twist

Eight Bob Dylan tracks are tenderly reimagined on this impressive collection

Fri Aug 14 2020 - 05:00

Margo Price: That’s How Rumours Get Started – Third album packs a punch

The songs are no longer firmly rooted in one sound while the lyrics are frank and feisty

Fri Jul 10 2020 - 05:30

Neil Young: Homegrown review – The album that hurt too much

Release postponed in 1975 after break up includes some worthy additions to canon

Fri Jun 26 2020 - 05:45

Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways review – A menacing and playful return

Dylan is on a roll. Woe betide anyone who gets in his way

Fri Jun 19 2020 - 11:32

Josh Okeefe: Bloomin’ review – Bob Dylan pastiche that hints at more

There is real character in songs such as We’re All the Same or Thoughts and Prayers

Mon May 25 2020 - 16:00

Former ‘Irish Times’ production chief Jim Cooke dies aged 88

Known to colleagues as ‘Cookie’, he gave ‘selflessly to the cause of The Irish Times’

Sun Apr 19 2020 - 21:02

Lucinda Williams: Good Souls Better Angels review – The tonic the world needs

A restoring curative for a fearful world, which beautifully balances vitriol and solace

Fri Apr 10 2020 - 05:00

The Lost Brothers: After the Fire After the Rain review – deeply reflective

Sixth album is not about standout moments, rather the deeply satisfying whole

Fri Feb 07 2020 - 06:00

The Band 50th Anniversary Boxset review - an album where the stars aligned

Music remixed to a new level of technology-enabled clarity which is quite revealing

Fri Nov 29 2019 - 06:00

Leonard Cohen: Thanks for the Dance – striking postscript to a remarkable life

Review: Cohen’s son Adam has shaped these final recordings into something memorable

Fri Nov 22 2019 - 06:00

Allison Moorer: Blood review – Stark and moving telling of a dark family tragedy

New album is singer’s attempt to make sense of the horror which has shaped her life

Fri Nov 01 2019 - 06:00

Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Colorado review – Powerful blast of private passion and public anger

Some of the veteran musician’s old crew reunite for songs with real emotional power

Fri Oct 25 2019 - 05:45

25 years of The Irish Times on the web – not forgetting its role in Saipan

In 1994 we took our pioneering, if stumbling, first steps on to the ‘world wide web’

Fri Oct 18 2019 - 06:00

The Rails: Cancel the Sun review – A stirring slice of Anglicana

The husband-and-wife team’s latest album expands on their folk-rock instincts

Thu Aug 22 2019 - 05:00

Eilen Jewell: Gypsy review – Country-folk-blues singer rolls with the changes

The Boise, Idaho native’s eighth album is worthy and enjoyable if not exceptional

Fri Aug 16 2019 - 05:00

Kate Holmquist: ‘A rule-breaker, trail blazer and a woman ahead of her time'

Hundreds attend service to remember writer who had the power to make words bloom just like the flowers in her garden

Fri Aug 09 2019 - 17:59

Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars review – His most radical and best album in years

By structuring the music around an orchestra, there is a remarkable freshness to his sound

Fri Jun 07 2019 - 09:23

Rory Gallagher: Blues – Giving Ireland’s greatest blues guitarist his due

This three-CD collection shows Gallagher had the chops to stand with the best of them

Fri May 31 2019 - 13:11

JJ Cale: Stay Around review – Remarkably tasty leftovers

Fri Apr 26 2019 - 05:00