Portland band Fruition released an album entitled Wild as the Night at the end of 2019. It takes a certain kind of band to release a new album only months later. The companion piece to Wild as the Night is Broken at the Break of Day, in which the band shows how comfortable it is moving […]
When you see a new album from G. Love, you have some idea what to expect. Namely, you’re going to hear some soulful and groovy melodies that make it impossible to remain still. With a little help from some guest musicians, G. Love will get you grooving on the new album The Juice (produced by Keb’ Mo’ […]
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Leftover Salmon is a band that has been around long enough that it doesn’t really need an introduction. For three decades, the band has played a sound that is based in bluegrass. On New Year’s Eve, the band will release a box set entitled 30 Years under the Big Top. By phone Vince Herman (guitar, […]
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photo by Matt Bizer When you look at a show listing and see that it starts at 7, you feel like you have to look again to make sure it wasn’t a misprint. At The Wayfarer in Costa Mesa, that is exactly what happened when Jason Hawk Harris opened for Jade Jackson. Why the early […]
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One of the great things about live albums is that if they are we-ll produced, they give you the feeling of having been present at the show that was recorded for the album. Live at the Basement by Blackfoot Gypsies is one of those live albums that gives you the feeling of being front and center […]
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Micah Schnabel is best known as the guitarist for Two Cow Garage. He has released some solo material, which is different in some ways than what he does with Two Cow Garage. However, the thoughtful lyrical content is always at the heart of Schnabel’s music, and that continues on his new album The Teenage Years […]
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If you’ve ever seen Blackberry Smoke, you know just how entertaining the band can be live. It’s not surprising that Blackberry Smoke released a live album. After all, the band released a live album only five years ago. However, for a band with a presence like Blackberry Smoke, live albums will always be in fashion. […]
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When you write about music, you hear a lot of new stuff throughout the course of a year. As they, say, you have to kiss a lot of frogs. However, kissing all of those frogs makes you appreciate the really good albums you hear throughout a year. This year, there were some good ones. In […]
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Scott H. Biram is known as “the dirty one-man band”, and if you’re familiar with him at all, you know how fitting that moniker is for him. He plays a dirty style of blues that makes you look for the nearest moonshine jug. But what if Scott H. Biram cleaned up – so to speak? […]
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You can call Wayne Hancock a throwback, and you certainly wouldn’t be wrong. After all, how many western-swing artists do you come across these days? The good thing is that you know what to expect when you hear a new Wayne Hancock album. That is particularly true for the new album Man of the Road. […]
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