Out Of The Box Cd Of The Week With Paul Shugrue

Blackstar, abstract and provocative, is the final phase of the master of reinvention. It came out three days before his death after an eighteen Month long battle with cancer.

One of the best albums of 2015, Carrie & Lowell. Hear more from this album and all the best releases of the year during the Out of the Box Retrospective Season.

First Comes The Night is a set of sultry, twangy originals hitting the retro sweet spot between Elvis and Roy Orbison, all quirky enough to fit in the David Lynch wheelhouse of melodrama.

One of the best albums of 2015 on Out of the Box, What a Terrible World, What a Beautuful World.

One of the best albums of 2015 on Out of the Box, Star Wars.

One of the best albums of 2015, Complicated Game. Hear more from this album and all the best releases of the year during the Out of the Box Retrospective Season.

The Cutting Edge is number twelve in the Bootleg Series, focusing on studio out takes from the 14 Month period in the mid sixties when he recorded three groundbreaking albums.

On the debut album Return to the Moon, Matt Berninger of The National stretches out with a more playful musical attitude on this solo project.

Method to My Madness one of the best of this veteran bluesman's twenty plus years career combining his humor, riffs and powerful moments into a great new studio recording.

On If I Should Go Before You, singer songwriter Dallas Green fleshes out his acoustic songs with a full band, creating a bold new style with more depth and variety.

All Across This Land synthesizes their many previous genres into one cohesive sound, Rock and Roll with a lot of heart.

Music Complete has this pioneering band reclaiming the mantle of originators of electronic dance music.

Crosseyed Heart is his first solo album in twenty three years and offers a fascinating look into his swaggering gypsy persona.

The Story of Sonny Boy Slim delves into the musical influences of this blues guitar hero, which are as much about Stevie Wonder as about Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Led by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, Your's Dreamily explores more soulful soundscapes with a slinky, psychedelic, R and B groove.

On Depression Cherry,the dream pop duo's fifth album, they scale back the instrumentation to reveal their greatest strength, lush, alluring romanticism.

Star Wars is an unexpectly fresh reboot of the artfully crafted sound they pioneered, with glam rock guitars that add a playfulness to the band's sound.

Beautiful You, the seventh studio album from this longtime Australian trio, is a collection of songs written separately but with similar themes of attachments to their home.

Positive Songs for Negative People completes the British singers transition to punk rock troubador and mixes solo acoustic songs with fiery, inspirational anthems about moving on.

Born to Play Guitar was released the day after this bluesman turned seventy nine years old but he sings and plays with a young man's zeal,charm and ferocity, cementing his legacy as one of the greats of the genre.