The SideMen featuring Nick Justice & Feter Martin Homer It appears this duo is from the backwoods & sings with straw in their mouth with a jug at their feet. But from the opening of “Come Dance With Me,” & the tone of the Long Island/Bronx native Nick Justice’s voice this is a highly polished […]
Like Fleetwood Mac, the Bee Gees, the Moody Blues, and a few other acts, England’s Animals had more than one distinct career. In the second, between 1966 and 1968, they billed themselves as Eric Burdon and the Animals and favored psychedelia-tinged material that included such U.S. hits as “San Franciscan Nights,” a hat-tip to the […]
Favorite Albums of July 2022 The results from the readers’ vote for favorite July 2022 releases are in! Congratulations top dozen! The top three will be featured in our new AH playlist “New Americana Music” this month, here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/70zkunFIXYbcH0zKp5ktPV?si=V-hra8MQSLWEq7O0ShzoGg Please heart & follow this playlist so it will grow and reach more music lovers and […]
“Ignore the man behind the curtain Ignore the puppets strings Ignore the lies and nonsense Of those who would be king” Wind of Change by Randy Lewis Brown I don’t normally use my own songs when I write about music stuff but this particular lyrical reference to the title song from my upcoming album was […]
Jim Lauderdale — Game Changer Review by Mark Pelavin Game Changer is Americana icon Jim Lauderdale’s 35th album, a body of work whose quality and quantity clearly mark him as a Nashville institution. In fact, this year he is nominated for the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame which would be added to his Lifetime Achievement […]
Eden James – All the Good Blank Are Taken With the first notes & vocals that spill from “Bad Girl,” award-winning Australian rocker Eden James’ 4th CD All the Good Blank Are Taken (Dandy Ram – Drops July 9) it’s evident James consciously or not channels a degree of Lou Reed. It continues obviously & […]
“Money, It’s a crime Share it fairly, but don’t take a slice of my pie Money, So they say Is the root of all evil today” Written by Roger Waters and recorded by Pink Floyd “Money” is a song off Pink Floyd’s record breaking album “Dark Side of the Moon”. Released in 1973 on Harvest […]
Bentley’s Bandstand: April 2023 By Bill Bentley Walter Bishop Jr., Bish at the Bank: Live in Baltimore. Pianist Walter Bishop Jr. was one of the all-time finest pianists in jazz, even though he doesn’t have as well-known a reputation as many other players. That might be because Bishop often pursued teaching positions in colleges, or […]
Tin Foil Stars from Horace Holloway is out October 4th on Dirtleg Records. Tin Foil Stars features contributions from of a group of folk indie rock’s top sidemen and women that includes Caitlin Cary (Whiskeytown), Catherine Popper (Jack White, Grace Potter, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals), Neil Flanz (Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris), Scott Brackett (Okkervil […]
By Jeff Burger Like such artists as the Bee Gees and Fleetwood Mac, the Animals had more than one distinct incarnation. As part of the first wave of the British Invasion between 1964 and 1966, they produced 11 deservedly acclaimed U.S. hit singles, including such bluesy rock staples as “It’s My Life,” “We Gotta Get Out […]
