A little more than halfway through Tami Neilson’s new album, the rambunctious rockabilly tune “Tell Me That You Love Me” gambols animatedly, mimicking a lover’s breathless desire for the promise of love. The driving bass and drum propel the guitars […]
It is shaping up to be, to quote Frank Sinatra, a very good year. Music-wise, at least. Given the strength of the albums below, and with nearly another six months to go, it will be a mind bender to put […]
New Zealand has always been a hotbed, albeit quietly so, of wonderful artists who perform Americana-roots-folk/rock and country music quite expertly. The Canadian-bred New Zealand artist Tami Neilson is no exception. On her fiery, well-produced third album Sassafrass!, Tami performs in a more […]
A New Zealand music reviewer said Tami Neilson is “a red-hot honky-tonker somewhere between Patsy Cline and Wanda Jackson with perhaps just a little bit of Peggy Lee sophistication.” That’s quite a heap of praise for the Canadian singer-songwriter […]
After doing this for a few months, I decided it’s time to venture beyond the usual DJ stable and interview some people who are in the business but not directly “on the air.” Al Moss is a record promoter who has […]
Last year at the Americana Music Conference in Nashville, I started talking to a guy about the nice Western shirt he was wearing and about how much I love Western shirts too. He told me his story about moving to the States […]
