You know, I guess I think I've always been a professional critic, you know, or some sort of professional

appreciator or something. And then. Now this is serious business here man.

Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do.

One great rock show can change the world. one great

albums get overlooked,

albums get overlooked, lost in the shuffle

or they're so far under the radar,

you never get to hear them.

We call those buried treasures.

I'm Jim De Regis.

And I'm Greg Kot.

We bring you some recent albums that deserve your attention.

And New Yorker music critic Alex Ross talks with us about music's role in torture and warfare. That's all coming up on sound opinions.

This is sound opinions and Greg it's been too long since we did one of these buried

treasure shows. We love them. It's music that we've been discovering and

digging and living with and we're excited about but nobody else seems to be talking

about it we live to share it with our listeners on sound opinions you're going to

kick us off give me a buried treasure well Jim the definition of buried

treasure can vary I think when we talk about that term buried treasures, I think people often associate it with younger artists or unknown artists.

But I also think it applies to veteran artists who have been unjustly overlooked for many years.

And I think this next artist qualifies.

I'm talking about William Bell.

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