By: Alex WoodAs every Friday brings new music, Tomorrow's Verse brings you our top picks. Here's our favorite albums from 11/3.Blitzen Trapper Wild and RecklessPortlands Blitzen Trapper continue their journey through the depths of Americana music with Wild and Reckless, a record packed with Southern imagery, twangy guitars and folk-rock arrangements. The record largely came...

We're still reeling from losing Tom Petty on Monday.  But do you know what helps?  Listening to his music.And while there's plenty of his records to dive into, you may also want to get relive some of the live stuff.  If you saw him at any of his last few swings...

Photos / Video: John "Nunu" ZomotJoan Osborne's latest release Songs Of Bob Dylan contains 13 takes on the Nobel Prize winner's songbook of hundreds of beautiful and impactful songs.So you didn't expect her to stick to the album when she stopped by Chicago for two dates at City Winery at the beginning of the month,...

Wintrust Arena, a 10,000-capacity venue, still unfinished, sits on the Near South Side as part of the McCormick Place Convention Center awaiting its grand unveiling this fall.  In addition to supplienting the already vast convention space in the complex, it will serve as a venue for DePaul Universitys basketball teams as well as...

By: Joe SupanWhat is it about this song that delights me so intensely? I mean, I am the kind of weirdo who thinks Jerry Garcia has one of the loveliest voices of all time, but still. Theres something special here.I actually remember the moment I first heard it. Its not a very good story...

By: Steven Jurgensmeyer, Founder/Editor at AllMusicBooks.comIt was a trend started forever ago, in jazz dens, bluegrass festivals and folk haunts. Fans would recordsecretly and not so secretlytheir favorite musicians of the day, who plied their trade set after set, night after night. The Grateful Dead famously took that notion to the Nth...

On tour with the Wheels of Soul Tour in the Summer of 2016, Tedeschi Trucks Band paid a visit to Tulsa, Oklahoma, the home of the Bob Dylan Archive.Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi sat down for a chat with archivists that ended up being a far-reaching, deep-dive on Dylan's persona, musicianship, leadership and of...

By: Alex WoodGrandaddy- Last Place [3/3]Jason Lytles Grandaddy returned for Last Place, the bands first studio album in more than a decade. The record remains within the boundaries previously established on the bands older work, with layers of keyboards, swirling effects and a keen sense of melody. Lytles lyrics are quirky throughout, but more personal...

I've been trying to process the news about Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize in Literature since the announcement last week.But sometimes it takes a different perspective to realize what an important contribution to the global cultural landscape Dylan has made.How about from President Obama?  A quote he gave to Rolling Stone magazine...

By: Alex WoodJames Blake- The Colour In Anything [5/6]Clocking in at a massive 76 minutes, electronic mastermind James Blakes third proper album, The Colour In Anything, is an extremely elaborate work of art, presenting every trick in the songwriters eclectic repertoire side by side. The music is heavy whether its dense keyboard and synthesizer harmonies, moody...