The albums of Cameron McGill are chock-full of ideas and inventions beyond anyone I’ve listened to in recent years. The fact that this man is not already a household name is surprising, but, in a way, comforting. With today’s white […]
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With a face like a young Willy DeVille and a young Tom Waits and a taste for eccentricity that combines these two musicians, Shane Tutmarc deserves to be considered one of the most exciting and promising artists of the American […]
The ‘Mats made it all wrong: they were too drunk when it happened to perform on important occasions, too great when the executives of record companies didn’t leave home, unable to shoot a decent video (Bastards Of Young’s is the […]
Just the list. No particular order DAN BAKER Sad song junkie (Trespass) FRAZEY FORD Obadiah (Nettwerk) CHRIS BRECHT Dead flower motel (Blue Rose) AMERICAN AQUARIUM Smalltown hymns (Last Chance) JOSHUA BLACK WILKINS While you wait (self-produced) BRIAN RITCHEY […]
There’s still a place in America where bourbon flows like a river, cigarettes burn fast and guitars sound masculine and rugged: in this particular case we’re talking about Joshua Black Wilkins’ Nashville. Firmly convinced that the differences between Hank Williams and Social Distortionare […]
BRIAN RITCHEY E.P. (2005, CALICO SKY MUSIC) Recommended by Matthew Ryan (who shares with him a certain taste for rainy days), Brian Ritchey is a big Indiana-born guy living in Nashville who could easily pass himself off as a secret member of The Jayhawks […]
In the wonderful booklet that comes with Keep An Eye On The Sky, the most comprehensive compilation of the semiminal (though often overlooked) Big Star, there’s an in-depth article where Bob Mehr gathers comments from fans, friends and famous supporters […]
When people talk of Emmylou Harris it’s always about her voice and her ability to instil a sense of inviolable purity or cover each song with pain. And only a mad, a deaf or a deaf mad could deny such […]
Even though he’s often considered as a possible American answer to the impetuous British Invasion of the Beatles, Kinks, Stones, Yardbirds, Who, Dave Clark Five etc, and in spite of a group who mockingly called him “Sir”, well stating once […]
This is the story of Rock or, in other words, how to get the best with the least. Let it Be is one of the masterpieces of the 1980s as well as the clear demonstration of how it is possible […]
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