Portland, Oregon’s Fluff & Gravy Records strides through a handful of years with a celebratory mixtape of sorts showcasing its vast array of sonic bids since 2011. What started as a veritable joke on a demo record has lampooned itself […]
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Is it metal, harrowing hard rock, cow punk? The question has existed in Black Oak, Arkansas since 1963 when the genius that is Jim “Dandy” Mangrum conceptualized the band of which became his nom de plume. Perhaps one of the […]
Not many things in life make me happier than the return of a bon-a-fide badass bluesman/guitar slinger, especially in that beautiful happenstance between blues and garage rock. Enter the last of the mysteriously missing trio from Tennessee, The Black Diamond […]
There are few things I love in this world other than real country music and the state of Georgia. Chris Stalcup & The Grange and I share that same headspace and heartstrings. Following no format other than rocked out chords […]
Perhaps it’s growing up mere miles away with the same nascent mood altering seasons amongst the same years, worshipping at the altars of Big Star and the ‘Mats, an outsiders view yet being a part of the inner core too. […]
Just over a month ago to the day saw the release of the latest Chris Robinson Brotherhood effort, Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel, on Silver Arrow. The record a stout eight songs deep clocking in at 13 […]
Music For Outcasts is a belying non-leaver of my truck’s CD playing universe for nearly the entirety of summer 2016. Albeit fast fed upon injection with not much thought, if any, behind it, the record has devoured my subconscious and usual deterrent […]
One third of the eternally awesome Black Diamond Heavies and akin to personal favorite the Immortal Lee County Killers, John Wesley Myers aka James Leg returns with his 3rd solo effort on the great, Alive Naturalsound Records, Blood On The Keys. If you’ve […]
Gainesville, Florida’s Big Shoals is back with an impressive radio friendly sophomore long player, Hard Lessons. A trio I hold in high regard not only as solid dudes but steeped in spotless production and Howell’s headier than most lyrics come […]
This article was originally published in a now defunct magazine back in 2014, but I feel it no better time to celebrate the band I still love with every inch of my heart and soul than the day before Independence Day, 2016. It’s […]
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