Bruce Springsteen’s 2020: I swam. I kept busy. I made an album

The Boss on reuniting with the band, the coming election and his new record Letter To You

Emma Swift: Blonde on the Tracks review – Dylan with a twist

Eight Bob Dylan tracks are tenderly reimagined on this impressive collection

Margo Price: That’s How Rumours Get Started – Third album packs a punch

The songs are no longer firmly rooted in one sound while the lyrics are frank and feisty

Neil Young: Homegrown review – The album that hurt too much

Release postponed in 1975 after break up includes some worthy additions to canon

Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways review – A menacing and playful return

Dylan is on a roll. Woe betide anyone who gets in his way

Josh Okeefe: Bloomin’ review – Bob Dylan pastiche that hints at more

There is real character in songs such as We’re All the Same or Thoughts and Prayers

Former ‘Irish Times’ production chief Jim Cooke dies aged 88

Known to colleagues as ‘Cookie’, he gave ‘selflessly to the cause of The Irish Times’

Lucinda Williams: Good Souls Better Angels review – The tonic the world needs

A restoring curative for a fearful world, which beautifully balances vitriol and solace

The Lost Brothers: After the Fire After the Rain review – deeply reflective

Sixth album is not about standout moments, rather the deeply satisfying whole

The Band 50th Anniversary Boxset review - an album where the stars aligned

Music remixed to a new level of technology-enabled clarity which is quite revealing

Leonard Cohen: Thanks for the Dance – striking postscript to a remarkable life

Review: Cohen’s son Adam has shaped these final recordings into something memorable

Allison Moorer: Blood review – Stark and moving telling of a dark family tragedy

New album is singer’s attempt to make sense of the horror which has shaped her life

Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Colorado review – Powerful blast of private passion and public anger

Some of the veteran musician’s old crew reunite for songs with real emotional power

25 years of The Irish Times on the web – not forgetting its role in Saipan

In 1994 we took our pioneering, if stumbling, first steps on to the ‘world wide web’

The Rails: Cancel the Sun review – A stirring slice of Anglicana

The husband-and-wife team’s latest album expands on their folk-rock instincts

Eilen Jewell: Gypsy review – Country-folk-blues singer rolls with the changes

The Boise, Idaho native’s eighth album is worthy and enjoyable if not exceptional

Kate Holmquist: ‘A rule-breaker, trail blazer and a woman ahead of her time'

Hundreds attend service to remember writer who had the power to make words bloom just like the flowers in her garden

Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars review – His most radical and best album in years

By structuring the music around an orchestra, there is a remarkable freshness to his sound

Rory Gallagher: Blues – Giving Ireland’s greatest blues guitarist his due

This three-CD collection shows Gallagher had the chops to stand with the best of them

JJ Cale: Stay Around review – Remarkably tasty leftovers

Michael McDermott: Orphans review – Self-lacerating reminiscences

Irish-American ditched drink and drugs, which had bedevilled his career

Patty Griffin: Patty Griffin review – distinctive songwriter is no longer a slave to love

Yola: Walk Through Fire review – Impressive country-soul debut

With Dan Auerbach of Black Keys fame at the controls, Yola taps into tasty retro country-soul and Americana

Steve Gunne: The Unseen in Between review – Psychedelic folk rock with a hint of Tom Verlaine

Townes Van Zandt: Down Home and Abroad review – Double the classics

The troubled troubadour Townes Van Zandt had a voice like no other– and it's here in all it's fragile glory

Springsteen on Broadway album review: Stories of hurting and healing

We knew he could tell stories, but this double album bring it to a new level

Taoiseach launches book chronicling history of Irish Sunday newspapers

Media should cover personal stories ‘responsibly’, Varadkar says

Neil Young: Songs for Judy review – A guitar, and that voice, journey through the past

Mark Knopfler: Down The Road Wherever review – he’s the sultan of storytelling

Bob Dylan: More Blood, More Tracks review – the bard’s most personal album laid bare

John Smith – Hummingbird review: First-rate folk

Richard Thompson: 13 Rivers review – Baker’s dozen of British folk-rock brilliance

Paul Simon: In The Blue Light – a new coat of paint for some faded old songs

Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis: Wild! Wild! Wild! – Great balls of fired-up rock’n’roll

We Banjo 3: Haven review – Americana plus Galway equals ‘Celtgrass’

Punch Brothers: All Ashore review – a thrilling marriage of head and heart

John Renbourn: Live in Kyoto 1978 review – A delightful solo performance

Shannon Shaw: Shannon in Nashville review – Power, nuance and character

Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore: Downey to Lubbock review – Cali-Tex duo dig deep into their roots

Willie Nelson – Last Man Standing album review: Country star still going strong

Nelson proves he is still one of the genre’s greatest songwriters and singers

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