Trilobite’s self-titled first album acquired a core of serious enthusiasts, myself included. Mark Ray Lewis’ snapshot stories were married to music of spartan beauty, breaking out into actual tunes often enough to give the listener something to hold on to. […]
It’s just five years since these three guys got together – sorry, make that two guys and one gal – and at that point they were all fresh into the whole business of making string band music. In that time […]
Jon Garcia, musician and filmmaker from Portland, Oregon, is a pretty quirky talent. As on his previous, self-titled, album Jon goes for an eclectic, Wilco-like approach – a really rich production that moves easily between almost painfully delicate numbers and […]
One hour of uncomplicated pleasure from John Lilly, a consummate musician who seems way too nice to be in show business. There’s no edge, no inflated ego, just a finely honed skill as musician, performer and writer. Listening to him […]
MICHAEL PETER SMITH FLOWS WITH HIS RIVER OF SONGS by Terry Roland “The dutchman’s not the kind of man who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam that holds his dreams in…” Michael Peter Smith from his song, The Dutchman […]
Tokyo Rosenthal: Ghosts There’s a suitably spooky cover photo for this recent album by ‘Tokyo’ Rosenthal; his head covered by a boxer’s hood, the picture has been given a mottled treatment that makes him look like a statue in a […]
‘The Bastard’s Daughter’ will be two years old by the time Janette Geri visits Britain again this spring but, along with a companion album of traditional and modern folk song covers (‘Telling Tales’), this is the most recent recorded work […]
www.nocomebacks.co.uk I fully expected to hate this: two ageing Brits in cowboy hats, one ageing Texan whose star has long faded, a bunch of singing cowboy songs and a drum machine. What can go right? I mean, I’ve been to […]
http://www.myspace.com/johnsieger John Sieger, from Milwaukee, has been through several incarnations as musician and band leader and along the way has produced several albums under his own name. His previous offering, ‘The Shaming of the True’, was the first time I’d […]
Dave Desmelik has been round a musical block or two. At one time he was a member of the hottest band in Flagstaff – can’t say I know how big Flagstaff is, but it’s a fair bet it’s bigger than […]
