Time to revisit this column, since I’m starting to find little windows of time where I can go back to my record collection and review old/lost stuff. This album raises the perennial question of what a cover song […]
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Floyd Reitsma is a Seattle based audio engineer who personifies patience and professionalism. He’s been engineering for more than twenty years and is the proud father of two beautiful children (whose pictures can be found on the Studio Litho fridge). […]
Matt Cartsonis: Sin City’s Sideman by Courtney Sudbrink, Editor Turnstyled, Junkpiled Whether he’s pickin’ Pete Seeger’s banjo, singing with Emmylou Harris or rescuing a boatload of Cuban refugees, Matt Cartsonis always manages to fly under the radar. […]
The reading of black music in America reveals a striking thematic continuity from the earliest slave songs to the blues and later to hip hop. One such a consistent theme is the expression of the emotional reaction from the individual […]
Romi MayesLucky TonightMeM Records MMACD 1045****AHKick Ass Blues from the type of woman my Mother warned me about. Romi Mayes Christian name is pronounced ‘Raw-me’ and a finer description of her singing and playing style I couldn’t make up; […]
I’ve just been informed that Paul Thomas, bassist for Pat Roberts & The Heymakers, and Arizona Blues Hall of Famer, passed away early this morning. I had the fortune to work with him for his last album “Lonesome and Blue” recorded las may […]
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican Nov. 18, 2011 The modern-day one-man band refuses to die. Maybe it’s the bad economy that makes it more fiscally feasible to travel and perform without having […]
By now the dust has nearly settled on the stunning 2011 Decemberists album, The King Is Dead. A rootsy, Americana turn-around that surprised their indie-lit core fans who were used to longer, more abstract songs, The Decemberists’ new sound dropped at a […]
The Twilite Broadcasters – The Trail of Time (Self Released, 2011) This old-timey North Carolina trio (Mark Jackson on guitar, Adam Tanner on mandolin and fiddle, and Duane Anderson on stand-up bass) return with their second album of early-country inspired […]
Chip Taylor & The Grandkids – Golden Kids Rules (Smithsonian Folkways, 2011) Chip Taylor’s most widely known for his iconic rock, pop and country compositions, including “I Can’t Let Go,” “Wild Thing,” “Angel of the Morning,” “Country Girl City Man” […]
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