Serendipity— when you prepare to repost a review and find out that the musician is back in the game after a long break. It happened to me recently— yesterday, in fact. There is this album, you see, from 2007 by […]
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I’ve been hearing about Sera Cahoone for years yet her music somehow eluded me. Friends used to ask me if I had heard her yet and of course I hadn’t and I don’t know why I didn’t search for her […]
A few years ago I headed down to the Axe & Fiddle in Cottage Grove to see Mad Anthony, a trio of rockers from Cincinnati who were friends of a friend. One of the best shows I had seen in […]
Perhaps I should clarify. Modern folk to me is the era of The Kingston Trio and Peter Paul & Mary and Pete Seeger. At one time, the folkies ruled the roost. I know because I have been alive that long. […]
I’ll be damned! Not one damn banjo on this record. Or mandolin or bagpipe or washboard or any of the instruments which has made Americana the go-to genre worldwide. I was beginning to think that mainstream rock was outlawed in […]
Do I like Jessie Smith? Oh, yes, I do and I will tell you why. She’s got the music in her. Deep. Embedded. She sings like she has demons but not about demons. The last person I heard squeeze the […]
There is something different about The Gage Brothers. They cover the bases— folk to gospel to Bluegrass and Newgrass and beyond— and they make it work, but they paint outside the lines of any one genre. They make it work […]
As basic as the music is, it isn’t. Three songs in and I had a string of notes citing Velvet Underground, The B-52s, Big Brother & The Holding Company, sixties garage and punk. The 81s are brash, retro and futuristic […]
I’m digging out this review, originally printed on the Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange, to celebrate the release of Dave Rowe’s recent live album, Live at Baldwin Station. Sometimes you have to look at (and hear) the past to understand the […]
After last years excellent Hard Settle, Ain’t Troubled album. After working on not-quite-there songs which are too good to shelf. After proving himself a songwriter of worth — in my review of Hard Settle, I called him “top-percentile” because I did […]
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