The hills are alive with the sound of storytellers, and few are better right now than Jason Tyler Burton. Burton left his home of Kentucky a while ago to explore the American West and hasn’t looked back. Like all storytellers, […]
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Before there was Hymn For Her, there was Maggi, Pierce & EJ. There was no cigar box guitar nor was there blistering Led Zeppelin and Morphine covers. What there was was a Philadelphia trio which rocked Americana as well as […]
A beautiful traditional folk-oriented song from Australia’s Anna Cordell
Brock Zeman. The guy who engineered, produced and played on Tom House’s exceptional Winding Down the Road album. The guy who has ten albums I haven’t heard yet but who has recently released one I have. The guy who is getting […]
You’re not going to understand this, but Nella Thomas is what Dinah Shore aspired to be back in the fifties. Trapped in a world she never made, Shore made a career of following the trends, thanks to an industry leaning […]
If I was a musician at the top of my game and looking for a second-on-the-bill, I would sure as hell avoid Jake Armerding. The guy’s all over the map, genre-wise, and does it all like he was born to […]
Here we go again. Fort Worth. I write about music all the time and I swear that a full one-quarter of what I write touches Fort Worth in one way or another. I wrote a piece about Space Opera, a […]
No doubt about it. No Small Children is one of the most powerful trios I’ve ever heard, when they want to be. Of course, I knew it. I knew it before the band was a twinkle in Bob Marlette’s eyes […]
When I reviewed Jon Gomm’s Don’t Panic, he was struggling to find an audience. The gigs were comparatively few and not as attended as he would have liked but he knew he had something and worked hard and developed a […]
And the award for the most intelligent semi-folk-rock-roots album goes to… Man, you have to wonder where they’re hiding the music. The major media doesn’t seem to care, their involvement seemingly limited to the yellow journalism crucial to the sensational […]
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