On his latest outing, he bills himself as the one and only, but Scott H. Biram is still connected to a gang of outlaws. Waylon and Willie and later on Dale Watson paved the way for the unfettered chronicles of […]
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Various and assorted assigners of labels are trying to lasso him with a cosmic cowboy lariat, but Sam Morrow won’t be attending the roundup. He’s too frisky to be tied down. Although he’s a Houston denizen, Morrow’s music doesn’t sound […]
It’s like hearing the voice of God. He commands your attention, a mix of the stern Old Testament God laying down the law and the New Testament one inviting sinners to gather round and learn something while they get cleansed. […]
JJ Grey is a shape-shifter, a marauding swamp thing big-footin’ it through his ancestral Florida homeland, splashing muddy funk in all directions. Trying to nail those big feet down is like wrasslin’ gators: He’s pretty much gonna do what he […]
Tinsley Ellis has finally come unplugged. It took 21 albums to do it, but on Naked Truth the Atlanta-based bluesman has forsaken his Stevie Ray Vaughan amp settings for an acoustic gathering of originals and a sampling of a couple […]
If you don’t like the Steel Wheels track you’re listening to, just wait a few minutes. Shapeshifting seems to be a hobby of this Virginia-based group that started life as an acoustic stringband, adding instruments and members along the way […]
As the title of his Alligator debut, The Hard Line, implies, vocalist/harpist Chris O’Leary’s life and career have followed a hard line, but not a straight one. Blasting through a dozen blistering originals, O’Leary chronicles the meandering journey that led […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As the end of the year approaches, we’re taking a look back at albums we weren’t able to review when they first came out. What’s Buggin’ You? was released in August. Omar Kent Dykes has been howlin’ since he shot […]
Uncle Lucius ain’t some avuncular relative who sits in the corner rocking and puffing on his pipe while he bounces the grandkids on his knee. This bunch of Austin thumpers and twangers had the scene tore up in those parts […]
It’s been a while since Kenny Wayne Shepherd was a child prodigy. In 1995, at age 18, Shepherd’s debut, Ledbetter Heights, sold half a million copies, and the follow-up, 1997’s Trouble Is …, earned him a Grammy nod. Now 46, […]
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