Looks like another light week, not for lack of titles to cover but lack of time to cover them all. But even as I transfer another handful of discs from the "Review This Week" stack to the "Better Luck Next Week" pile, the calendar reveals a couple of light title weeks coming up very soon. So eventually everything will get its chance in the drawer and in this forum. Until then, there’s no present like the time. This week: new CDs from Paul Carrack, The Church, Hanne Hukkelberg, The Datsuns, Jeremy Enigk and Wooden Birds and a classic album by Game Theory.  

This is the biggest week for releases since the first of the year, at least in terms of sheer quantity. I check out new CDs from Neko Case, Justin Townes Earle, Soundtrack of Our Lives, Buddy & Julie Miller, Wild Light, Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan, Eric Elbogen and The Church's Marty Wilson-Piper and remember a live Jimi Hendrix bootleg.