Psychology and fairy tales. They are the basis for more than one major work, the largest of which might just be The Wizard of Oz and its in-depth look at good witch and bad witch as seen through the eyes […]
Psychology and fairy tales. They are the basis for more than one major work, the largest of which might just be The Wizard of Oz and its in-depth look at good witch and bad witch as seen through the eyes […]
I have never stopped an Amy van Keeken song midstream, I hold her in such high regard. Small potatoes, I know, but I cannot say that about any other musician I have heard. None. At some point, even with my […]
I need more time. I need a 48-hour day and an eighteen day week. Musically, I miss too much or, in this case, take too long to get to what I should be hearing. I know it every time I […]
Every time I hear Dave McGraw and Mandy Fer’s music I mourn for the loss of so much music which could have been, for when I grew up few women were afforded the luxury of the electric guitar. At one […]
All I heard was “I was killing some time just drinking down at Sophie’s” and I knew I liked this guy already. Made me think of Gary Larson of The Far Side fame and the many cartoons he drew in […]
Kirsti Gholson made me wait three years for this album. I was thinking of making her wait three years for this review. I’m kidding, of course, but I can now breathe a sigh of relief. Over those three years (and […]
I met Hymn For Her’s dog twice. Pokey. Not as in Pokemon but as in Pocahontas Illinois Cloud, so named because they found him in Pocahontas, Illinois. We were friends. We touched noses. He was the band’s security, backup vocalist […]
It has been a very good few weeks and this album is one reason. I had never heard of Jerry Castle and I wonder why not. He has been around for years, first as a member of Toast (never heard […]
Holy mackerel! I search hard for music like this and I all too seldom find it and yet there it was in my mailbox. Josh Farrow. Trouble Walks With Me. Nice cover, I thought, but the purple-hazed look in this […]
Me, pass up an album titled Cartoon Moon? Not a chance! Of course, the cover helped, a beautiful illustration of a tree over the moon, and the name (Dead Horses) curious. I don’t know what I expected, maybe another one […]