Steven Stone holds on to old technologies. He still has Beta and VHS video-cassette recorders, PCM, DAT, tape cassette and even a pair of Revox reel-to-real recorders, but with the latest BluRay release of Cream’s 2005 Royal Albert Hall concert, it’s finally time to put the Toshiba DVD-HD players into mothballs…

Another Friday, another music review. I’ve written that labels don’t matter in the new world order of Internet distribution, but there’s always an exception to the rule. Compass Records makes consistently great-sounding acoustic music that deserves a place in any acoustic music lover’s collection.

RCA, Epic, RSO, IRS, London, DG, EMI, Motown, Pye…Except for Motown, which has a clear identity, would you buy an album because it was on a particular label? I suspect not. The days of labels as brands that mattered are over…

Keith Whitley. Unless you’re a pretty hardcore country music fan, you may not have heard of him. But without Keith Whitley, Alison Krauss might never have become a country star. His new traditional style influenced a generation of country performers…

Some albums get better with time. Charles Sawtelle’s Music From Rancho Deville ranks as one of the most essential and important bluegrass albums of the decade. It also sounds wonderful…

Steven Stone has been writing music reviews for Vintage Guitar Magazine since the mid ’90’s. As a regular Friday feature he will revisit some of his favorite albums for Audiophile Review. The first, from Nickel Creek, was recently re-released in vinyl. Doug Sax mastered the original CD. Here’s great sound and great music…

Here’s a tale of a schoolhouse, an acoustic group, and a pair of microphones. Steven Stone treks into the wilds of Colorado (Ok, it’s only two miles from his house) to make a field recording of an exciting new acoustic group that plays a unique kind of modern music.