Fred Boenig has been in the “business” for many years and I admire his passion, honesty, and courage. That said, I feel that he’s a little harsh on the Americana Music Association and radio promoters. It should also be noted that Fred […]
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Slaid Cleaves and sideman Chojo Jacques perform for the Buddy & Jim Radio show taping, Cayamo 2016
Let’s start the new year with an old radio friend and a real fan of the music: Big Kev Ploghoft from WLVR in in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. What I love about Kev is that he always has something to say about everything. Happy […]
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Slaid Cleaves performed at the fifth Don Walser reunion tribute at the Broken Spoke Jan. 20, 2015. Cleaves enjoys a career as a solo recording artist. He sang his song about the late Texas yodeler Don […]
Give Slaid Cleaves credit. Though he’s not exactly a household name himself, his primary motivation in making this album of cover songs was to bring attention to worthy but little-known artists (many of them his friends) who in some instances […]
Slaid Cleaves has never met a down-and-outer he didn’t like or couldn’t work into a song. As much as, if not more than, his last full-length CD, 2000’s Broke Down, Cleaves’ new Wishbones sets up a desperate, occasionally despairing carnival: […]
The Philo debut by this Maine-to-Texas transplant benefits from the inviting warmth of Cleaves boyish tenor and the deft understatement of Gurf Morlixs production, but suffers from an inconsistency of material. Too easily, Cleaves settles for folk cliches, in songs […]
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