Miss Tess – Cher Rêve Miss Tess is an artist who has shown she can do everything well. She is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose vocals make you sit up and take notice. Her sound is variable, often from one song to the next, with elements of country, jazz, and old-time rock ‘n roll. The […]
More Fun with Rockin’ Dopsie and The Zydeco Twisters Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. and The Zydeco Twisters is a band that is known across the U.S. and Europe as a band that gives high-energy performances. That’s not surprising considering zydeco is part of the band’s name. It’s also not surprising when you hear the band’s energetic […]
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Alice Wallace – Here I Am Alice Wallace is a country singer who calls Nashville home. A country singer in Nashville is certainly nothing shocking, although Wallace doesn’t record songs that sound like a lot of the music that comes from Nashville. It’s fair to say that her time in southern California brought a sort […]
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Sticks and Stones – Lukas Nelson and POTR It’s not surprising that Lukas Nelson shares some similarities with his dad. But the similarities aren’t simply genetic. Like his dad, Lukas refuses to be confined to any one genre. Another similarity is that Lukas also boasts a fan base that seem to support him wholeheartedly no […]
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It has been a while since Natalie Merchant released a new album. In fact, Keep Your Courage is her first album since her self-titled album released in 2014. Despite the long break between albums, she remains one of those artists that you can’t mistake for anyone else. Of the new album, she said, “The songs […]
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Dean Zucchero is a bassist who grew up and got his musical career started in New York. After leaving New York, he spent nine years touring with The Healers. When he returned to the States, he found a home in New Orleans playing with Cyril Neville, among others. The city has certainly impacted his music, […]
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Del Barber is a singer-songwriter from the prairies of Manitoba who has been nominated three times for a Juno Award. Like Colter Wall, he’s no stranger to singing about farming, ranching and other things common to life on the Canadian prairies. For his new album Almanac, Barber and his road band went into the studio […]
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Robbie Fulks has never been an artist that is content to make the same sort of album repeatedly. He is just as comfortable making an album of sad country songs as he is making a rock n roll album with Linda Gail Lewis. That being said, as someone who grew up in North Carolina and […]
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The Shootouts — Stampede Akron, Ohio, probably isn’t the first place that comes to mind when you think of country bands. In that regard, The Shootouts is a band that is a pleasant surprise.On its previous two albums, The Shootouts have given the world a good collection of honky-tonk songs. On those albums, they proved […]
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Dyer Davis is only in his early 20s, but, being the son of a musician, has enjoyed a good musical education. His formative years included the music of Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart among others. In 2021, producer Billy Chapin convinced Stephen Dees of WildRoots Records to record with the talented singer-songwriter. That was his […]
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