Following are reviews of albums that have been completely or partially recorded in WSDG-designed studios. As you can imagine, the list of notable albums is nearly endless, marking WSDG's highly successful 40 year career. These records cross many genres and of course many generations. Below is just a sampling--we will add to this list periodically and you will see it grow so please visit frequently!

Recorded at Allaire Studios in Shokan, NY.

Norah Jones' debut on Blue Note is a mellow, acoustic pop affair with soul and country overtones, immaculately produced by the great Arif Mardin. (It's pretty much an open secret that the 22-year-old vocalist and pianist is the daughter of Ravi Shankar.) Jones is not quite a jazz singer, but she is joined by some highly regarded jazz talent...Read full review here.

Recorded at Bearsville Recording in Bearsville, NY.

Phish's last album, the double CD A Live One, distilled a decade's worth of dedicated road work by a group that has reinvented improvised rock for a new generation. If Phish have an identity, it is one characterized by endless change and musical risk, a yesterday-today-and-tomorrow sound that draws liberally from rock history and jazz innovation. Read full review here.

Recorded at Bearsville Recording in Bearsville, NY.

In its '70s heyday southern rock was huge but hardly monolithic — under its pillars dwelt the guitar swagger of the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Dixie Dregs' jazz fusion and Sea Level's literate funk. Then, dealt fatal blows by the passing of crucial Allmans and Skynyrd greats, it crumbled, and the region, led by Athens, Ga., and Chapel Hill, N.C., turned alternative. Now, with the H.O.R.D.E. concerts and a new appetite for mammoth bluesy jamming, there's a revival of Southern-rock spirit. And especially of the pyrotechnics its originators perfected.Read full review here.

Recorded at Allaire Studios in Shokan, NY.

Veckatimest ain't perfect; lord knows it tries. More than most any album in recent memory not named Chinese Democracy (please keep reading), it is compositionally and sonically airtight, every moment sounding tweaked, labored over. Perfection-- and the pursuit thereof-- has its price, and in less able hands (with all love to Axl), this obsessive attention to craft and execution could lead to something dull. What's perhaps the most remarkable thing about the truly remarkable Veckatimest, however, is how very exciting much of it is; no small feat for a painstaking chamber-pop record that never once veers above the middle tempo.Read full review here.

Through most of “The Element of Freedom” Alicia Keys sings processionals. They’re slow, clean songs with semi-classical acoustic piano, soft-pop chord changes and simple, prominent hip-hop beats. They’ve nearly got a social purpose: They underline acts of inspired dignity, or informed desire, or virtuous defiance.  Even when she’s singing about losing it over a guy, as she does eight or nine times on the record, it comes across as the weakness of the mighty. Read full review here.

Recorded at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin.

From the beginning, U2 aspired to profound ecstasy. But it took Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. a while to get there. Two of U2's first three albums are undeniable classics: 1980's precociously magnificent Boy for its proudly spiritual optimism in the thick of post-punk nihilism and for the Edge's reveille-treble guitar; 1983's War for its arena-rock muscle tone (honed over three years of touring) and the matured blend of soldier's ardor and pop wile in the singles "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "New Year's Day." Read the full review here.

Recorded at Oven Studios in New York.

You have to admire Alicia Keys' commitment to her street-nice vision. In the year Ciara grew up, Rihanna left the islands and Jill Scott explored the joy of sex, the twenty-six-year-old's third studio album envisions a hip-hop generation ready for its own Roberta Flack. Click here to read full review.

Recorded at Electric Lady Studio in New York

With Bob Dylan no longer bringing it all back home, Elvis Presley dead and the Beatles already harmlessly cloned in the wax-museum nostalgia of a Broadway musical, it's no wonder the Rolling Stones decided to make a serious record. Not particularly ambitious, mind you, but serious. Click here to read the review.

Recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York.

When George Harrison met John Bonham, the Beatle told the Led Zeppelin drummer, "The problem with your band is you don't do any ballads." Singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page could have taken umbrage -- they had already written the gorgeous "Going to California" two years earlier, for God's sake. Instead, they rose to the challenge. Click here to read full review.

Recorded at Allaire Studios in Shokan, NY.

The most immediate pleasures on Heathen are all covers. David Bowie has exquisitely hip taste, and he attacks the Pixies' "Cactus," Neil Young's '69 ruby "I've Been Waiting for You" and the Legendary Stardust Cowboy's sci-fi valentine "I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship" with the same sharp-dressed zest that he brought to the Easybeats and Pretty Things hits on 1973's Pin Ups.C Click here to read full review.

Recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York.

With his last three albums Stevie Wonder has replaced Sly Stone as the most significant individual black innovator in the twin fields of R&B and rock. He has also replaced him as the most popular black music personality: Wonder's appeal now crosses every boundary. His music always sounds free and, at his best, he does things no one else can. Read entire review here.

Recorded at Allaire Studios in Shokan, NY.

Warpaint is the first studio album from the Black Crowes in seven years — not that you can really tell. The Crowes still bang out that old-school boogie that might be three or four decades old if it wasn't brand-new. All the obvious ingredients that fueled their 1990 debut, Shake Your Money Maker, are still in place, from singer Chris Robinson's Jagger swagger to the band's Faces-style barroom juking. Read entire review here.