Rivermudtwilight By Les Triaboliques Review by Douglas Heselgrave In music as in life, three is often a crowd. The idea of an instrumental CD from a trio of string players with a background in British punk and new wave might […]
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Not from Montreal – Voices from under the Radar Review by Douglas Heselgrave The embarrassment of musical riches just keeps pouring out of Montreal, and while this has been a great thing for Canadian music in general, a lot of […]
Soname – Plateau Review by Douglas Heselgrave Soname was born in Tibet in the nineteen seventies, but like many of her generation she fled the oppression of her occupied homeland to live in freedom in India. While there, she resided […]
While the work of most performance artists may fall outside of the comfort zone of some of us nodepressionite acousti-phobes, this CD by M. Nahadr has really been growing on me. I think there’s an inner cowgirl in there somewhere […]
Review: Slide to Freedom II By Doug Cox and Salil Bhatt (Northern Blues Music) Review by Douglas Heselgrave Cross cultural conversations in music are nothing new, and the novelty that once accompanied the release of albums like Paul Simon’s Graceland […]
no fool for trying by Madison Violet (True North Records) Review by Douglas Heselgrave It’s not easy to make a good country album these days. Like the blues, country’s a genre of music that has been stewing in its own […]
Pure Jerry Volume 8: Jerry Garcia and John Kahn – Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium, San Rafael California, February 28, 1986 (Jerry Made Live Recordings) Review by Douglas Heselgrave More than a decade after Jerry Garcia’s demise, the folks at Grateful […]
My Walking Stick By Jim Byrnes Review by Douglas Heselgrave There aren’t many albums like My Walking Stick being recorded today. Then again, there aren’t many singers like Jim Byrnes around anymore either. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Byrnes has […]
Water in the Ground By Catherine Maclellan Water in the Ground, the new CD from Maritime songstress Catherine Maclellan arrived in my mailbox the same day as Bob Dylan’s Together through life. I’ve been listening to both albums almost non-stop […]
If the voice that is talking is never your own, Then who’s going to tell you that you finally come home? -from Never Your Own If the world was fair and the acclaim an artist received was based solely on […]
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