“I’m A Stranger Here,” the fourth studio album by American roots trio The Devil Makes Three, is scheduled for an October 29, 2013 release on New West Records. On this ten-song record The Devil Makes Three give more of the […]
For the last several years I have worked as a freelance music journalist, publishing regularly with a handful of publications. Mostly I do it for the press passes to shows and free releases for review, etc, because I am a complete music nerd whose tastes include a variety of genres and subgenres. Roots music is one of my favorites, though. And I have done reviews and interviewed a number of today's more worthwhile country, bluegrass, blues, roots rock, rockabilly, psychobilly, folk, folk-punk bands and singer-songwriters.
“I’m A Stranger Here,” the fourth studio album by American roots trio The Devil Makes Three, is scheduled for an October 29, 2013 release on New West Records. On this ten-song record The Devil Makes Three give more of the […]
Boston-based blues-stomp and roots rock powerhouse Ten Foot Polecats have recently released their second full-length studio album, “Undertow,” on Hillgrass Bluebilly Records. A worthy follow-up to the band’s highly praised 2010 debut, “I Get Blamed for Everything I Do,” “Undertow” is […]
It’s funny, the lasting impressions the music we hear as children makes on us. In my home, which was a very musical environment, to say the least, I came up with quite a range of music. What sticks out most in my memory is […]
Newcomer to the dark roots and folk blues scene, one Joakim Malmborg, who goes by the moniker Old Kerry McKee, has recently released his debut full-length album, titled “Wooden Songs.” For this album, which is remarkably good for his first, Old Kerry McKee […]
Albums of cover songs too often fail to impress, since the versions, if not carbon copies of the originals, are usually poorly done. Of course, that is not always the case, and it certainly isn’t so with the new Alive […]
When a split recording is released in the world of one-man bands, it is usually something more than a little worthwhile. In the case of the new split between Scottish bluesman Sleepy Eyes Nelson and American singer/songwriter Slate Dump, “Covered […]
Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Menic, whose solo debut was recently released by Voodoo Rhythm Records, is probably one of those artists that you have never heard of, despite his level of talent, and despite his long held and highly regarded place in the international […]
Australian one-man band Made for Chickens by Robots is at it again, this time with a brand new seven-inch musical disaster titled The Wrong Brain, Episode 2. This one is a four-song cheese platter, and as usual it consists of all sorts of weird […]
Belgian bluesman Tim De Graeve, who goes by the stage name Tiny Legs Tim, is a rather new and worthwhile artist in the one-man band scene. Even though he has only been writing and recording original songs and performing for a few years now as a […]
To give his fans a little something special between his last release in 2010, Feed the Family, and his upcoming album, folk and blues troubadour John Konrad Wert, who records and performs under the moniker Possessed by Paul James, has just released a […]