Thomm Jutz – Ring-a-Bellin’ Basically, a showcase of well-written, easy-listening songs, ballads, & stories & all performed with delicate tonality, beginning with “Too Many Walls,” in the tradition of songwriters like the late David Blue, Eric Andersen, Ron Cornelius & Tom Paxton. While Thomm isn’t pushing the folk angle thematically, he has a skill with […]
What music comes to mind when you think of rock and roll’s earliest years? For many people, the answer is probably the sort of material that signaled a major break from the overly polished, sanitized pop that previously dominated the charts—manic, upbeat rockers like Jerry Lee Lewis’s “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” Elvis Presley’s “Hound […]
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Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz – Circle and Square This effort touches upon a few hefty subjects – creation, natural disasters (tornadoes & hurricanes), the White House, coral reefs, democracy & grief. Sounds like life’s business as usual. But these topics are great song clay in the hands of skillful musicians — to be shaped […]
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Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz Bring The Now To Simple Motion Nashville-based songwriters and artists Eric Brace, Peter Cooper, and Thomm Jutz fell into a trio configuration after Brace and Cooper worked with Jutz as producer on their own duo music, and the fact that this happened so naturally says a lot about their musical […]
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Les Cousins (folk anthology), plus Steeleye Span Live and Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz Rock wasn’t the only kind of music that was exploding in the 1960s: a major folk and blues revival was underway on both sides of the Atlantic. In the States, many artists who championed these genres performed at famed clubs such […]
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Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz – “Simple Motion” Americana Highways brings you this new song by Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz, “Simple Motion,” the title track from their album forthcoming on February 16 via Red Beet Records. This song, however, will be dispersed into the world on January 19th. The album was produced by […]
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Grooves & Cuts January 2023 – by John Apice Every now & then I rummage through all the music I’ve received, been pitched, in my own collection, or acquired through friends in shoeboxes, milk crates & overseas containers. Stuff that came from major labels & independents or directly from artists. I have had CDs & […]
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