Joelton Mayfield – Crowd Pleaser Nashville’s Joelton Mayfield has spent the better part of nearly a decade working on his debut, the just released Crowd Pleaser. By 2021 he was finally set to make this record a reality. He and his bandmates moved into a family barn in Alabama and started setting up an impromptu […]
Bruce Springsteen & Born To Run: 50 Years by Sean Egan It’s not hyperbole to say that Bruce Springsteen’s 1975 album Born To Run was a make it or break it moment for New Jersey’s favorite son. His first two albums for Columbia Records did ok but didn’t garner nearly the sales figures that label […]
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The Wood Brothers – Puff Of Smoke Nine albums deep into their career, you have a pretty good idea of what you’re getting with a new Wood Brothers album. And thankfully that trend still holds true with Puff Of Smoke. That’s not to say there aren’t any musical surprises here. While folk and Americana still […]
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Old Town Crier – Peterson Motel Peterson Motel, the latest EP from Jim Lough (going under the moniker Old Town Crier) is another brief but solid collection of Americana-soaked rock tracks. The five songs – all coming in at a Ramones-friendly two-to-three minutes long – are a collection of compelling made-up stories about the inhabitants […]
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Benmont Tench – The Melancholy Season The sophomore effort from Benmont Tench – best known as the longtime keyboardist and co-founding member of Tom Petty’s band The Heartbreakers – comes just over a decade after his solo debut. The album’s title is fairly apt, as Tench, with the help of some guests, reels through more […]
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Jeremie Albino – Our Time In the Sun On Jeremie Albino’s latest, Our Time In the Sun, it’s easy to hear why the young Toronto-R&B-devotee quickly won over big-name fans like Orville Peck, Nathaniel Rateliff, Sierra Ferrell and members of the Black Keys. In fact, Dan Auerbach, one half of that duo, was so impressed […]
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Paul Kelly – Fever Longing Still With the release of his 29th studio album (29th!), it’s a good reminder that in a just world Paul Kelly would be as big in the US as he is in his native Australia. Going back to his earliest record in the ‘80s with his band The Dots, you […]
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Hayes & The Heathens – Self-Titled It takes just one song off the eponymous Hayes & The Heathens to beg the question why did this take so long? And it doesn’t even matter which song it is. Native Texans Hayes Carll and members of The Band of Heathens have been friends for a long time […]
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Oliver Wood – Fat Cat Silhouette Oliver Wood – one third of the stellar Americana band The Wood Brothers – finally has a follow up to his 2021 solo debut – and it once again proves to be worth the wait. On Fat Cat Silhouette, Wood brings in a slew of friends to help out […]
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The dB’s – Stands For DeciBels The dB’s, much like their fellow southern contemporaries in R.E.M. and Let’s Active, helped bring the Power Pop tradition of Big Star, complete with jangly guitars, to a whole new generation of music fans, and in the process went on to inspire a slew of bands from The Posies […]
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