Magic Slim doesn’t just play the blues, he body slams his audiences with a vicious guitar attack that pins them to the floor. Then the rhythm section jumps in, whomping you with a brickwall backbeat Slim slings his stinging guitar solos against. Slim’s not one to sit […]
Incredibly it’s been a full nine years since the last album of new original material from Little Feat. Admittedly they followed 2003’s ‘Kickin’ at the Barn’ with ‘Join The Band’ in 2008 but that was something of a stop gap […]
Here’s the best Americana and roots-type music releases for the week of August 21st, 2012 from Americana Boogie. Click the artist or album links to find out more. The artist’s names link to their websites and the CD title links […]
The Cinebarre is a movie theater attached to an old mall on the outskirts of Asheville, North Carolina. It shares a highway exit ramp with hotels and chain restaurants. One way is the farmer’s market, the other is the arboretum. […]
The Dukes Of September‘s second of two Canadian whistlestops blew through the Big Smoke last night without too many airs, nor fanfare, about it. Toronto is a musical town, increasingly asserting itself as one of the major cosmopolitan cultural centres […]
The invention of Memphis instrumental soul Booker T. & The M.G.s’ 1962 debut LP couldn’t possibly live up to the invention and excitement of its title single, but it doesn’t have to, as even without the catchy hooks of their […]
I needed a clone or three last weekend. Concerts and CD release parties criss-crossed the Seattle map. We chose to leave the Seattle area, though, and visited some friends in Tri-Cities. Massy Ferguson was in Richland and played two nights at Tagaris […]
Texas hill country soul Texas singer-songwriter Walt Wilkins gets deeper with every release. Having spent ten years as a Nashville songwriter, Wilkins returned to his native Texas. He reminisces about his time on Music Row in “Between Midnight and Day,” […]
I began listening to jazz when I was fifteen years old, at The Thelma Yellin High School (Israel). I didn’t listen to jazz at all before that. As a guitar player (I didn’t sing at all at the time) I loved listening […]
Caroline Herring’s new album, Camilla will be released on Aug 28, and you can listen to it in its entirety at FolkAlley.com, until that date! by Kim Ruehl, for FolkAlley.com There’s something about the way Caroline Herring delivers a line […]
