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. […]
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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, […]
North Mississippi Allstars frontman Luther Dickinson isn’t climbing any rural hills on his latest outing, Magic Music for Family Folk. It’s billed as a kids album, but the content here is for children of all ages. It’s a real family […]
ALBUM REVIEW: Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed Applies Soul Appeal to a Wide Range of Covers on ‘Hits and Misses’
For the last two decades, Eli “Paperboy” Reed has been screamin’ like a lost soul trying to find his way home. The Brookline, Massachusetts, native started vocalizing like a ’60s soul demon after moving to Clarksdale, Mississippi, shortly after his […]
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