Favorite Albums of February 2025 You voted! And now the results from the readers’ vote for favorite albums of February 2025 releases are in! Congratulations top ten! What a great bunch of albums this month! Check out the list just to see what else was new, too. The top five will be featured in our […]
Joe Ely – Love and Freedom This set introduces itself with the retro Farfisa-type organ chords (in an early ‘60s tradition) on a Wild West dice game rocker “Shake ’em Up.” Joe Ely’s well-punctuated alternative country-rock experienced vocals suit this fine. The material isn’t as romantic as Chris Issac, as folky as Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, […]
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Favorite Albums 2024 (Second Half)by Bill Bentley Jeremie Albino, Our Time in the Sun. When a musician comes along that does not create songs just for songs’ sake, but genuinely feels like their music on this earth is to be taken seriously, that’s when the magic begins. These people keep rock & roll real, and […]
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Jimmie Dale & The Flatlanders – All American Music Even though the LP says Jimmie Dale & The Flatlanders the lead singer is the well-known distinctive vocalist Jimmie Dale Gilmore. This showcase is part of Texas musical Americana history. With this initial set, the musical genre gave us Gilmore, along with Butch Hancock & Joe […]
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Joe Ely – Driven to Drive On his latest album Driven To Drive, legendary Texas rocker Joe Ely once again demonstrates why he is and has been one of the most adept and charismatic purveyors of American music for decades. His music has always been an eclectic and distinctly original mix of Tex Mex, […]
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Music Reviews: Leonard Cohen Tribute, Roy Orbison, Joe Ely, Dean Torrence, the Claudettes, and Daphne Parker Powell Various artists, Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen. Nobody performs Leonard Cohen’s songs as well as their creator, though artists ranging from Jeff Buckley to Judy Collins to Joe Cocker have recorded memorable covers over the […]
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