Memphis bassist and singer Amy Lavere’s 2005 debut This World Is Not My Home showed a promising touch with jazz swing and country boogie but was undercut by somewhat underdeveloped original material. Her second album makes substantial amends; there are […]
Memphis’ Gamble Brothers Band plays sunny pop music tricked out with silly-putty melodies and blue-eyed soulful touches of B3 and horns. The group’s chops and grooves, which are not only keyboard-driven but altogether guitar-less, have a good deal more to […]
Amy LaVere portrayed Wanda Jackson in the film Walk The Line, but on her alluring debut disc, she comes across more like a demure roots chanteuse than a rockabilly wildcat. The Memphis-based performer establishes her albums blue mood immediately on […]
A Little Bit Of Rain is one of the most affecting, beautifully rendered and delivered, funky sweet bits of singing on record in the last couple of years. Mississippi raised, in hard blues country, and since then a longtime Memphis […]
