Earlier this year prolific singer-songwriter Bruce Sudano on his EP Spirals, Vol 1: Not A Straight Line To Be Found displayed his formidable songwriting skills to fashion five irresistible songs about subject matter that are common to all of us- namely life, love and death. Now some six months later, he treats us all […]
With her new album Wildhorse, Norweigan singer-songwriter Malin Pettersen masterfully blends her love for country and jazz to create a delightful mixture of the two genres that is at once stunning and mesmerizing. Brilliantly produced by the trio Aaron Goodrich, Ryan A. Keith, and Misa Arriaga, Pettersen’s prodigious talent is allowed to take flight […]
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On her enthralling new album World is Waiting singer songwriter Nikki O’ Neill offers up seven wonderfully relevant songs about love and relationships that both enchant and uplift you as a listener in a way that will have you humming and thinking about them days after your first auditory experiences with them. The opening […]
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Malin Pettersen is a Norweigan singer – songwriter / musician who is a rising star in both Nashville and the Nordicana movement. She has shared bills with the likes of Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Brad Paisley, Jim Lauderdale, Colter Wall, Charlie Crockett, Kelsey Waldon, Mollie Tuttle, Erin Rae, Nikki Lane, and Jaime Wyatt and […]
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Great Peacock is a Nashville based band with an exciting and original sound rooted deeply in Americana, Southern rock, country, and folk. Recently I spoke with frontman Andrew Nelson about the band, their influences, the power of music in our lives, and about their new album, Forever Worse Better. Our conversation, edited for clarity […]
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I have always believed that love and the longing for, loss of, and the absence of it and the inevitable feelings, problems, complications, and aftereffects that follow can be used in a myriad of ways to help explain the actions, both good and bad, of every individual ever born. It is love that is […]
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The Northern Belle is a Norweigan band who are pioneers of the Nordicana movement, which is a movement that combines their native Scandanavian folk music with American music forms and includes artists like Darling West, Daniel Norgren, Malin Pettersen, and others. Their latest album We Wither, We Bloom, which was released in late August […]
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It was in 2012 when renowned jazz bassist Brian Bromberg first unleashed his audacious and altogether brilliant instrumental album Bromberg Plays Hendrix into the music world and now in September 2020, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the tragic and untimely passing of Hendrix, we find that the bass player virtuoso is […]
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Slim Jim Phantom is the longtime drummer of the iconic American rockabilly band the Stray Cats whose new career-spanning live album Rocked This Town: From LA To London was released September 11 on Surfdog Records. Recently I spoke by phone with this great American rocker about how he became a drummer, the significance of Elvis […]
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In his 2016 book A Stray Cat Struts: My Life as a Rockabilly Rebel, drummer Slim Jim Phantom when speaking of his band the Stray Cats and their loyal fanbase, boldly declares “We will outlive many, many bands that sold more albums than we did ”, a statement which is gloriously borne out on […]
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