Carlo Wolff

Al Green cleared his throat with I Can't Stop, his smooth, formulaic return to secular form in 2003. With Everything's OK, the Memphis minister is in full voice: His second disc with long-time producer Willie Mitchell finds the two at the top of their game. Largely written by Green, Everything's...

Brian Wilson's story is one of creativity and commerce, about trying to make the most innovative, divine music in the world. It's also about a dysfunctional family, about a tyrannical father who beat him so hard that he went deaf in one ear, about brothers who lent him the voices...

On his first solo album in ten years, our Canadian of the Sorrows pulls off a ton of ambiance, calls in some prestigious cameos, and ultimately delivers too few real songs. This is a collection of moods more than melodies, and even though Emmylou Harris and Bono help out on...

Lou Reed's interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe is an all-star double-disc set that aims to modernize one of the most presciently psychological American storytellers. At more than two hours, it's an ambitious, often wild work, teeming with almost as many names from the New York and Los Angeles glitterati as...

Bryan Ferry, the paradigm of rock 'n' roll freeze-frame, would never be so disheveled as to be frantic. But he can be urgent and persuasive -- qualities that dominate this album, his best in a good ten years. Paced by a propulsive, infectious cover of Dylan's "It's All Over Now,...