On Drive All Night, Sky Smeed evokes that singer/songwriter corner of 1971 that held both John Prine and Steve Goodman’s self-titled debuts. There’s a lot of humor and a comparable gentleness in Drive All Night, but like those two records, […]
Mike West’s fourth album offers a relatively unusual mixture of bluegrass, New Orleans jazz and blues, Celtic jigs and string-band romps using seven musicians and fifteen instruments. He pulls off all that variety with a reasonable sense of cohesiveness, but […]
