I must listen to hundreds of albums a year— at least sample that many— and there are few which really floor me. I try to write about the ones which do, though even then the words sometimes escape me and […]
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There is a density to the Pick Brothers’ new EP, Blue Days. There has to be, when you start the title track, “Sometimes you have to make it rain to get lightning in a bottle.” I immediately got the feeling […]
There is a lot to love about The Youngers. For pop lovers, there is melody, hooks galore and just enough country twang to keep things interesting. For country lovers, the country twang balances the pop perfectly. Indeed, any track on […]
It’s called pushing the envelope and there are few bands out there that do it better than Churchwood. They are not alone, what with Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers shakin’ the shacks and The Supersuckers adding their bit of insanity in […]
I remember when CSNY’s “Ohio” hit the radio. It wasn’t all that long after what I call The Kent State Massacre and it struck a note as deep as any song ever had. One weekend, my buddy Dave Gray and […]
Willows. I thought they were beautiful when I was a kid, various forms of the tree evident throughout the Willamette Valley of the fifties and sixties— umbrella trees with waterfall branches which sometimes hung to the ground. Thick in the […]
Used to be a time you could tell where a band was from just by listening to the music. There wasn’t a band in the UK who could make country sound country or in the US make trad folk sound […]
As if to bolster my opinion that trad folk is ready to make a comeback, Brit duo Hickory Signals has made its way across the water and I could not be happier. I have the past year been singing the […]
I am always amazed when a sleeper comes along, and Farewell Milwaukee’s FM may be one of the best sleepers I have ever heard. To explain, a sleeper is an album coming out of nowhere and pretty much ignored by […]
Pop goes the Country (and The Youngers go Pop). Covering the country edge from first track to last, they do it through reflecting various classic eras in pop and country music with a touch all their own. “Heartbreaker,” for instance, […]
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