David Wild

What makes For Me, It's You Train's strongest set of tracks to date is that the songs here sound more than just professional -- they sound surprisingly lived-in and earthy.

While the grand romanticism of Ca Ira might throw some Waters die-hards, the opera ... does reflect some of the man's long-term obsessions with war and peace, love and loss.

Everything’s OK is much more than OK — it’s one more righteous, red-hot reason to treasure this surviving genius of soul.

The radiant Sacred Love is a vivid and frequently gorgeous reminder that Gordon Sumner is first and foremost a talented singer-songwriter.

Like so much of Steely Dan's recent comeback, Knopfler's new album, Sailing to Philadelphia, is a welcome flashback.

Sure, Steely Dan are a decade or two late in delivering Two Against Nature, their follow-up to 1980's Gaucho. But time may finally be on the side of rock's most illustrious music geeks.

Stiff Upper Lip ... is everything we've come to expect from the band and absolutely nothing more.

Eclectic, lively and only occasionally goofy, Supernatural offers a glossy but winning context of musical fusion that highlights Santana’s unique ability to make that guitar of his cry expressively.

Bachman succeeds in the area where your average gifted power popster fails: sensitive singer-songwriter tunes.