The musical force known as Swamp Dogg, aka Jerry Williams Jr., has spent the past 65 years in the music industry as a singer, songwriter, A &R man, performer, and record producer. Once described as “one of the great cult figures of 20th century American music”, the always colorful and defiantly original artist earlier this […]
In his 2008 autobiography, Eric Clapton said of his longtime teacher, mentor, and friend B.B. King that he was “without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced.” B.B. King, in a Rolling Stone interview in 2000 in which he was talking about the original release of Riding With The King, […]
Continue Reading
There is a stark contrast that lies at the heart of singer / songwriter Sunny Ozell’s new album Overnight Lows. It exists between Ozell’s angelic and seductively beautiful voice and the defiant, pragmatic, and sometimes biting lyrics of the songs she sings on this quietly spectacular record. While the pop music sweetness of her vocal […]
Continue Reading
On The Witches Made Me Do It, singer-songwriter Ryan Cassata offers up a collection of songs that ultimately transcend the sometimes dark circumstances that they describe and were inspired by. In so doing, Cassata once again displays his superior lyrical and compositional skills with an honest, frank, and rebellious intensity that reaffirms that he is […]
Continue Reading
Darlin’ Brando is the pseudonym of singer, songwriter, and drummer Brandon Goldstein. On his new album Also,Too… Goldstein puts an original spin on some tried and true Country music themes and delivers a thoroughly enjoyable and fresh sounding record, his first. On the opening number ” When You Don’t Fight,” Goldstein croons along with his wife […]
Continue Reading
Over the years, Neil Young’s best songs have always had an emotional power and resonance to them that have served to set him apart from other lesser talented singer / songwriters. “Ohio” which was inspired by the 1970 Kent State killings (when he was still with CSNY),”The Needle and the Damage Done,” his tale about […]
Continue Reading
It is a truism, or at least it should be a truism, that in 2020 if you want to hear the most original music around, you should listen to Americana music. There is no other genre that has the ability to be as diverse or eclectic. The variant sounds that emanate from its main sources […]
Continue Reading
With their new album Ghosts of West Virginia (New West Records) Americana music stalwarts Steve Earle & The Dukes tell the story, in song, of the deadliest coal mine explosion in American history – the Upper Big Branch explosion in West Virginia that claimed 29 lives in 2010. Born out of the music Earle […]
Continue Reading
On her latest album Bad Luck (Sylvia Rose Novak), singer/songwriter Sylvia Rose Novak eschews the acoustic country-folk sound of her three previous records and instead employs turned up Crazy Horse style electric guitars and occasional crying pedal steel guitars to establish her melodies and to come up with a thoroughly loud rock and roll […]
Continue Reading
On her new album All This Time (self-released), singer/songwriter Heather Anne Lomax (formerly known as the artist Michael-Ann) delivers an intense fusion of early rock and roll, blues, and Memphis-style soul that should instantly captivate any fan of those three genres. On this record, with a booming and powerful voice that echoes […]
Continue Reading
