Kevin Shirley’s inspiration to bring together Glenn Hughes, vocals and bass, and Joe Bonamassa, lead guitar and vocals has provided one of the best rock/blues bands and albums of the year.

After nine months, the modern day super group returns with its second release.

Interview with Glenn Hughes of Black Country Communion from 2010

Interview with Derek Sherinian from 2013

This is the quintessential coffee table book. That’s particularly true for those who love guitars.

The whole “do an album of covers” concept is a popular approach these days.

Following up his last release seemed to be a fairly swift effort, but it was a good idea for Don Airey, as this one is a little more up my alley.

As I mentioned when I reviewed the video release of this, I’ve never been a huge fan of Paul Rodgers.

I’ve got to admit to something that might be considered by some to be sacrilege.

You might not recognize Reese Wynans' name, but he's been the keyboardist on so many records during his 50-plus year career.

A much harder and heavier album than The Ballad of John Henry, the blues really shines on this album. 

This album is just getting reissued.

There is no question that Joe Bonamassa was heavily influenced by the British Blues Movement. It could be argued, though, that the movement was one of the biggest influences on popular music in the last 70 years or so.

After  a short bit of documentary that outlines the British blues movement of the 1960s we’re taken into the concert to continue. It is immediately apparent just how good Joe Bonamassa and his band are as they tear through the opening instrumental medley.

This is one in a series of new Glenn Hughes reissues. The first CD is a studio album (with one bonus track).

This is quite a cool set. The main man behind this is Billy Sherwood, and I always like the stuff he does.

Cleopatra Records loves doing these tribute albums, typically with Billy Sherwood in charge.

This is a review of the Japanese import version of Heaven & Earth which features a lot of musicians that Stuart Smith assembled for this great band.

This is a brand-new six-CD box set that gathers up the studio releases from Glenn Hughes released between 1995 and 2003, but I bet you got that from the title, right?

When you dig into an album by Joe Bonamassa, you have a good idea what you are going to get. His brand of blues and rock is pretty well established.

I’ve always been a big fan of the Burn album.

Sons of Apollo, for those of you who don’t know, are a new prog metal group featuring an all-star lineup.  

There has been much said about the different lineups of Deep Purple but for my money, the Mk 3 lineup stands up as their best. 

When I got this disc I was really looking forward to it. I mean, with a list of names like that how could you go wrong?

Eagle Records is certainly making Christmas come early this year. 

It is still pretty early in the year, but I'll be surprised if this release doesn't make my "best of 2020" list. The mix of sounds here includes metal, good solid hard rock and plenty of progressive rock.

This is part of a new series of reissues of Derek Sherinian albums.

This Derek Sherinian disc is just getting the reissue treatment.

This is a reissue of an album that was originally released in 1984.

Given the scope of musicians on this set, I'm shocked I've never heard of these guys before. This is a reissue of an album released in 1987.

One part concert film, one part documentary, Phoenix Rising looks at the Mark IV lineup of Deep Purple (David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes, Tommy Bolin, Ian Pace and Jon Lord).

Had I heard this album last year, it would have definitely made my best of 2017 list, and been pretty high on the list. This is an amazing album.

I’m a big fan of Deep Purple, particularly the classic stuff.

This is the brand new release from Joe Bonamassa, and he's outdone himself. While I can't say that I've heard every album he's done, I've followed his career quite a bit.

This is part of a series of reissues of Glenn Hughes solo albums. It's one of the stronger releases in the set, too.

After Roger Glover had left Deep Purple, he was looking for a new project and came upon about titled "The Butterfly Ball." He decided to create an album based on the book.

This is a weird album in the Black Sabbath catalogue.  Initially meant as a solo record, the label and management “persuaded” Tony Iommi to release it under the banner of Black Sabbath featuring Tony Iommi.  

Featuring hard rocking adaptations of Frank Sinatra songs, this is kind of a mixed bag.

This has a great sampling of guitar blues/rock classics mixed with Joe Bonamassa’s original songs.

What an amazing set this is.

So, I’ve already reviewed this album in an earlier release. 

Stuart Smith put together this band some time ago and made an album, then later put out this amazing DVD that showcases many of the proceedings in the studio while working on the project.

This new box set from Glenn Hughes compiles a number of bootleg live albums. There are seven CDs here from six different shows.

The latest in a series of bootleg box sets of Glenn Hughes music, this might be the best of the bunch.

This massive CD box set gathers a batch of Glenn Hughes bootlegs. I'm guessing you could figure that out from the title, though, right?

This is one of the entries in the new series of Glenn Hughes reissues. Like the rest, they add a second CD, this time a concert from 2000.

This new release is a double CD version of the 1970 self-titled debut by the band Trapeze.

I like The Who quite a bit. I mean, they aren’t one of my favorite bands, but I do really like them.

I am putting this under progressive rock for a couple reasons. For one thing, this band often lands there.