Fires ablaze in his eyes, the guitar-slingin’ preacher was a man possessed: waving his arms, and exhorting those assembled beside the rushing blue waters to heed his fervent call: “Yes, I want ya to follow us, right on down to […]
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For all their chops, the young, hungry ’50s men convening in the unassuming 706 Union studio knew that good-time spiritedness had to figure outstandingly in the efforts undertaken. This new disc features that same fun element in each economical and […]
When Rick and the Ramblers’ tour bus broke down in the middle of rural nowhere, the propitious happenstance meant just one thing to locals: Barn dance! In the good-naturedly swinging tradition of cowboy-hatted western haystack ensembles before them, Rick Norcross […]
Raising up a mighty, mighty sound and cutting so loose and wild as to stand tall and declare realness proudly free from rein — while rocking the joint to the ground, making dancers happily lose themselves to The Beat and […]
Julie renders with drawled mellifluousness austere portrayals of common folk whom life has cast in variegated circumstances and who are struggling with heart questions of sudden demand. Rightly enunciates its smooth, comfortable country stock with familial pride. Recommended “He Made a Woman […]
Billie sends sweet vocal notes soaring miles overhead; sometimes, belted out gutturally, at other turns, crooned huskily and benefiting from classy bearing. All the while, the nimble but formidable band at her back makes rockin’-down-tracks, swing-blues magic. Recommended “Jukebox Daddy,” “Scorched,” […]
Lara Hope, of New York’s Hudson Valley, deservedly won Ameripolitan’s 2017 Best Female Rockabilly Vocalist award. A beguiling chanteuse, Lara swirls with facility from sonorous swinging to purred intimations to powerhouse, knock-down-drag-out rock ‘n’ roll. All the while, agile […]
As all originals are credited to Lara and the group, it’s to their collective distinction that these songs be cheered as bouncing with an ebullience that grips and a novelty that intrigues. Bits of the old and beloved are employed […]
Affectionately drawled, Americana pond-rippling of back-water human experience. Fiddle, guitars, mandolin, solid drums — the chosen instruments of the common man, raised up in defiant joyfulness. Straddles backwoods dirt roads and bright lights, big city cement, gamboling with a poetic […]
Strapping Utah commandos locate and shine to high sparkle intersectional rockabilly boogie and free-roaming surfside musings. Reminds at turns of Paul Galaxy and the Galactix. Of exactly that palmary calibere. Recommended “Ain’t No Good,” “Let Me Go,” “Ghost,” “One More Lap Around the […]
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