Rickie Lee Jones tried a variety of approaches between 1995-2001 — originals, acoustic versions, live album at Red Rocks. But in the middle, she accomplished the unusual: a quality all-covers disc, coherent in sound and reflecting the artist’s diverse tastes in…

(Late 2021 note: This originally appeared in the November 2001 issue of The Record Exchange’s Music Monitor, likely the first issue with content written after 9/11.) Has one changed skyline altered your aural landscape, too? Did a bunch of songs…

“Can you see me rising since your disappearance? / Safe to say that I’ve regained myself.” As far as most people know, these are the first words to come out of Joan Osborne’s mouth in five years. You’d think that…