This is a selection of reviews and commentaries I’ve written about some favorite albums. I’m in the process of an archaeological dig to find and feature some more from years past, so come back sometime.

• U2, Songs of Innocence

• The Welcome Wagon, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices

• Joe Henry, Reverie

• Sam Phillips, Magic for Everybody

• Sam Phillips, Don’t Do Anything

• Joe Henry, Civilians

• Over the Rhine, The Trumpet Child

• Over the Rhine, Drunkard’s Prayer

• Sam Phillips, A Boot and a Shoe

• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

• U2, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

• Over the Rhine, Ohio

• The Innocence Mission, Birds of My Neighborhood