With her dazzling new EP Heart In Tennessee singer-songwriter Teni Rane firmly establishes herself as a glorious musical force to be reckoned with by giving us a brilliant collection of six songs that illustrate a wonderful ability to capture and communicate complex and simple emotions and observations in a way that we can all […]
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Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar – The Reckless One With a nice muscular vocal by Canadian vocalist Samantha Martin & subdued but punchy horns & soulful Hammond organ the band Delta Sugar is superb. It’s planted in rich retro-sounding soil but infused with generous doses of modern Stax-Soulfinger notes. A pinch of 70s powerhouse horn-driven […]
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In all the great music and awful chaos of 2020, one thing that’s been in short supply is sad love songs. There have been some devastating albums (Courtney Marie Andrews’ Old Flowers remains the best break-up record of the year), but the old, odd comfort of finding that solitary sadness in the midst of a […]
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Steve Bonham and the Long Road’s new EP Out of the Darkness is a mighty 4-songs released in October. The EP delivers celebratory high vocals, swift guitar work and up-tempo piano, all wrapped up in a folk music package with ribbons of British influences. The tracks are performed by Steve Bonham and The Long Road. […]
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On November 13, 2020, Mitch Dembin released his second full length album Nothing Up My Sleeve. From the opening piano figure (is it a Fender Rhodes?), you just know that this album is going give late Boomers/early Gen-Xers something to smile about. Perhaps more than any time since the advent of rock & roll, musicians […]
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The early stuff, I shouldn’t be such a snob against it. A lot of these songs, I just lost them. They fell away. They only exist in these recordings. For so long I rebelled against the term, ‘I was never a folksinger.’ I would get pissed off if they put that label on me. I […]
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It’s been said that rock and roll slumped in the late 1950s, when Elvis Presley entered the army and Buddy Holly died, and that it remained in weakened condition until the Beatles and other British Invasion acts emerged to revitalize it in 1963 and 1964. In fact, lots of great artists rode the charts […]
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Ward Davis – Black Cats and Crows Black Cats and Crows (drops Nov 20 – Thirty Tigers) is a 14-track with enough originality to keep it interesting. Davis’ vocals are unique, the band’s tight & experienced. While I found the opening cut to be dismissive – a good dual-sounding guitar-driven song that’s been done to […]
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Chris Hillman – Time Between – My Life As a Byrd, Burrito Brother & Beyond It isn’t safe to assume that everyone who enjoys music in the 21st Century knows who Chris Hillman is. Though the name may be familiar, it’s never been as recognizable as Bob Dylan, David Crosby, or Leonard Cohen, unless you […]
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Katarina Pejak – Outside Looking In While I’m not a big fan of electric pianos & their annoying notes I do like the tone of Katarina Pejak’s voice – a tone that is powerful enough to be an effective jazz/easy listening vocalist if she would just embrace more acoustic instruments. The horns are fine & […]
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