Phil Grant

Deer Tick “Mayonnaise” (Partisan Records, 2019)

February 4, 2019 Phil Grant 0

Deer Tick, the mercurial Rhode Island indie outfit, have long been multi-labelled with Rock/Folk/Blues/Country tags but they don’t feel they have the drawl for the latter. Well my Providence friends, this is Americana UK, and you […]

The Life and Times of the Brothers Hogg “Room Service” (Independent, 2018)

January 22, 2019 Phil Grant 0

In an album review with a limited word count, a band name like The Life and Times of the Brothers Hogg takes up a lot of space. It leaves very little room to talk about their surprisingly […]

John Hiatt “The Eclipse Sessions” (New West Records, 2018)

November 15, 2018 Phil Grant 0

It’s always with a core of trepidation that I approach a new album by a very long-established artist. It’ll be defended to the hilt by fans but often underwhelms most others, due to the natural tendency […]

Carson McHone “Carousel” (Loose, 2018)

October 22, 2018 Phil Grant 0

There’s barely a month goes by without the release of an album described as genre-breaking, eclectic or alt-whatever, and Carson McHone’s offering is the latest in line. Fans of 2015’s rootsy and traditional ‘Goodluck Man’ will be […]

John Smith “Hummingbird” (Commoner/Thirty Tigers, 2018)

October 4, 2018 Phil Grant 0

John Smith’s history reads somewhat like the tales of the troubadours he loves. Constantly touring with his guitar strapped to his back for the past fifteen years, he has played with, and for, some of the […]