India Ramey – Villain Era Someone likes westerns. India Ramey gets off to a dusty happy trail’s to you start with music reminiscent of “Ghost Riders In the Sky” & stuff like Marty Robbins’ LP “Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs,” with the 1959 hit “El Paso.” India’s tunes are originals & not covers. The decisive […]
If Lily Vakili’s 2025 long player Oceans of Kansas revealed the width and depth of her songwriting, the new six-track EP Live Wire pulls the camera in close. Arriving after an East Coast run, Live Wire is a musical snapshot of an artist trying to bottle the electrifying charge that happens when her songs stop […]
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Ed Snodderly – ES Pearl Aka Ed Snodderly Baggage Flies Free On first listen, I’m struck by how Ed Snodderly cruises through like a modern-day Woody Guthrie crossed with Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. He plays in their traditional manner, with the pristine clarity of modern technology & guitar picking, to get his folky country pieces across […]
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Whitehorse All I Want Is All of It The Canadian husband-and-wife duo Whitehorse are back on May 8 with their new album All I Want Is All of It, set for release on Six Shooter Records. They return to their folk-rock romantic aesthetic after more than twenty years of musical and marital partnership. In this […]
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Josiah and the Bonnevilles have a new album “As Is”
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Carmen Ratti Band featuring Jill Dineen Come To Me This has a bluesy semblance, but it’s Euro-flavored in arrangement style. It makes it curiously rich & interesting. Vocalist Jill Dineen has pipes & her vocals are decoratively assigned with both bluesy power, easy listening cocktail lounge tonality & middle-of-the-road finesse. Is that possible? “No Delusion” […]
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Jennifer Lyn & the Groove Revival Electric Eden Well, Ms. Jennifer Lyn certainly doesn’t have a thin voice. She’s not growly like Janis Joplin or nuclear-powered like Candy Givens (Zephyr’s “Sail On”) & Lydia Pense (Cold Blood), but she’s a bit more vocally attractive than Brenda Patterson. What she has is a voice somewhere between […]
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Billy Price featuring The Billy Price Band Random Madness This showcase opens with a jazzy samba groove on “I Was A Fool.” It’s sung well, but Mr. Price doesn’t have a heavily rooted distinctive voice – he does have presence & gets the song across impressively with skill. As always, he has a tight band […]
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Mike Mitchell – Love Songs, Torch & Bluegrass Bluegrass is country music on steroids & this showcase has several examples of that prediction. “Little Mountain Home” is a good bluegrass introduction with more traditional threads, but “Little Delilah” is bluegrass drenched in gasoline with the fiddle fire of Mike Mitchell, whose lead vocals are the […]
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Yarn Saturday Night Sermon Yarn releases their new studio long player, Saturday Night Sermon, an album that finds the band adding tangs of gospel and soul – via brass, organ, and a gospel choir – to their Southern rock sound. Talking about Yarn’s evolving sound, frontman Blake Christiana shares, “The band has officially established something […]
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