“It’s the voice! It’s the voice!” I mean, I like voices as much as anyone but it is never just about the voice to me. It is about the nuance of the voice, maybe, or the texture or the tone, […]
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In case you haven’t noticed, there is a folk/psych renaissance going on. If you’re under 50 you more than likely would not notice for its roots were planted long before your existence, in the folk/pop movement of the late sixties […]
I have never heard music more beautiful than the high lonesome wail of Hank Snow when he sang to the sky nor the hymns as interpreted by vocal bluegrass artists like The Blue Sky Boys. It so seldom happens, this […]
A review written in 2010 for an album which still holds water: I feel like the guy on the episode of Night Gallery or one of those other fantasy/sci-fi/horror TV shows who survives the earwigs eating their way from ear […]
I am always amazed at people who do not like gifts of music because, hey, music is one of the best things in the world and when it’s free, what’s not to like. So when my friend Terry Currier at […]
One track in and I’m sold, sucked in by the high wailing vocal harmonies straight out of the mountains and overlaid on a bed of solid rock. “Shining In the Distance” is as good an example of roots music I […]
Music has a way of recycling itself— the good music does, anyway— and it is no surprise to me that Nick Holmes, formerly of White Elephant, has re-entered my conscious life. He has never been out of it, actually, because the […]
I was turned on to three hit albums last week, all by a duo calling themselves Daisy House. I had forgotten what it was like, hearing track after track after track and thinking hit, hit, hit, hit as I listened. […]
Wait. What? Seems like just yesterday I tried to listen to a Derek Thomas & Skyline Drive album and couldn’t. Well, I could listen to it but when it came to writing about it, the words wouldn’t come. One time […]
This is not a review of a live show as much as it is a review of a recording of a live show which is almost the same thing, isn’t it? I mean, it was one hell of a show […]
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