In the six years since her last album, Kate Jacobs got married, had kids, and let this new disc happen as it wanted to; the recording process stretched over years. There is a familial feeling in both the lyrics and […]
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In the grand tradition of tribute-album overkill, this is the third collection of Johnny Cash covers to be released in the last year. But where the others concentrated on country and Americana, this one is a blues-themed set. Artists range […]
The blues has been incorporated into many other styles, creating blues rock, country blues and more, but Canadian Harry Manx (who lived for 25 years in India, Japan and Europe) has come up with a new hybrid that could be […]
After the uneasy calm of her 1999 solo album Catalog, Danielle Howle has gone back to the full frontal attack favored by her companions in the Tantrums. Howle’s music sounds a bit different when intertwined with the multi-genre talent of […]
If you’ve ever felt out-of-place in your hometown, the Stelle Group would like to commiserate with you. On their debut, they use the Stones and Big Star as jumping-off points for songs that explore getting out from a romance, a […]
“All children make up stories, most folks just quit,” David Clark says when asked how he got started. Clark’s storytelling carries a definite musicality in texture, tone, and pace, peeling open layers of meaning behind the simple actions of everyday […]
In her former band the Freight Hoppers, Cary Fridleys rhythm guitar was the propulsive fuel that kept the group of old-time music youngsters from capsizing under the weight of tradition. That intimate familiarity with the energetic pulse of the music […]
There’s a fine line between wearing musical influences on your sleeve and transcending them. New Yorkers Red Radio Flyer step firmly over that line on their debut. A melancholy mood piece that recalls Roy Orbison, Chris Isaak, and the Mavericks, […]
Maybe this album should have been subtitled, “Something Pissed Off This Way Comes”. On “Pretty Nighttime Glimmers” John Crooke sings, “Holding my chances, I’m holding my tongue,” but that reticence is momentary. Crooke is best-known as the leader of North […]
Best-known for his songs that were recorded by others (including Jimmy Buffett, Arlo Guthrie and David Allan Coe), Steve Goodman released a long string of excellent albums of his own before dying of leukemia in 1984. Many of them have […]
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