The FLESH EATERS are back! Yep Roc Records has released a new record by this classic LA band lead by lyricist, poet and author Chris D. Now I have to confess, I am a huge FLESH EATERS fan. I’ve been […]
The FLESH EATERS are back! Yep Roc Records has released a new record by this classic LA band lead by lyricist, poet and author Chris D. Now I have to confess, I am a huge FLESH EATERS fan. I’ve been […]
It’s been fifty years since Tony Joe White stepped into the spotlight with his Muscle Shoals-infused debut Black and White, and its iconic single “Polk Salad Annie.” He continued to thread his southern roots through five decades of touring and […]
If you’re looking for a swamp thing, Tony Joe White is your go-to man. For the last 50 years, White has been thrashing around in the muck, regaling us with tales of swamp denizens he has been acquainted with. 1968’s […]
Amy Helm wants us to go toward the light. For her latest, her sophomore solo project This Too Shall Light, Helm is a secular evangelist, delivering her ministry through her music with the intensity of Bettye LaVette, shadowed beautifully by […]
The Stray Birds’ fourth album Let It Pass is an unplanned farewell record. Since the release of their 2016 album Magic Fire, Maya de Vitry and Oliver Craven ended their romantic relationship and, alongside Charlie Muench,the band questioned their future. […]
Its great to have Nick Lowe back again with rockabilly/pub-rocker persona intact. His tours with Los Straitjackets seem to have awakened the skiffle side of Lowe that had gotten stuffed down in the space between the seat cushions of his […]
It seems like an unlikely pairing, a self-proclaimed wild blues blaster from just outside of L.A. with a loud Stratocaster that can blow any roadhouse down hooked up with an ol’ flatlander from the great high plains with West Texas […]
As lovely as her voice is, and as skillfully as she plays guitar, Kim Richey’s brightest gifts may be her eyes and ears. With those, she takes in the world around her, and with her heart and brain and hands […]
At the time of this February 1963 appearance at Boston’s Club 47, Doc Watson was a regional country and pop performer, but not yet the international exponent of traditional folk music he’d soon become. Folklorist Ralph Rinzler had started Watson […]
Chicago’s prettiest rat-tail nest of American roots music Yep Roc slides out two more in its lovely Nick Lowe reissues series — this time a couple of full-lengths released in the late 80s / early 90s that at the time […]
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