Written from the heart. The great instrumental triumvirate of Cajun music is the guitar, the fiddle, and the accordion but, surely, the greatest of the great is the accordion. Without the fluidity of the button accordion, […]
Happy Christmas I think… So here it comes like a speeding bullet – the end of term. Feels more like the end of days when watching current news bulletins. Couple of questions: Why when reporters ask […]
Moody, Neil Young-style, widescreen Americana/indie folk from Ontario – unoriginal, but occasionally intriguing. ‘Lead Foot’, the darkly powerful, foreboding and crunching rock song that ushers in singer-songwriter Oliver James Brooks’ third studio album, ‘Storm Chasing’, has […]
Singer/songwriter Tom Freund has released his cover of a 1995 song by one of his heroes, legendary U.K. pub-rocker Graham Parker. ‘Disney’s America‘ is part of Freund’s forthcoming album, ‘The Year I Spent in Space’, which […]
In ‘Florida’, Thomas Dollbaum delivers a masterful vocal performance, backed beautifully by Kate Teague’s harmonies. The song begins with just Dollbaum’s storytelling over gently finger-picked guitar. Steadily, ‘Florida’ builds and grows, with Mac Folger’s violin and […]
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