Richard Phillips

Dan Israel “Social Distance Anxiety Disorder” (Independent, 2020)

May 27, 2020 Richard Phillips 0

If you were to peruse Dan Israel’s prodigious output of albums, you would come across some of the following titles: ‘Dan’, 2015, ‘Danthology’, 2013, ‘Dan Israel’, 2005 and the modestly entitled, ‘Dan Who?’, 2001. Now, of […]

A top ten of classic Americana albums

May 19, 2020 Richard Phillips 2

Will I be listening to this top ten in ten years? For the most part, probably. Most of the selections have stood my test of time for a good twenty or thirty years and I don’t […]

Secret Emchy Society “The Chaser” (Independent, 2020)

May 14, 2020 Richard Phillips 0

How was last night? Did you spend it drinking Tennesee Bourbon cogitating on life’s injustices whilst the sound of a Fender Telecaster twanged along with the band playing in the background (albeit a recorded one during […]

Ten covers of Bob Dylan’s ‘To Ramona’

May 1, 2020 Richard Phillips 6

The original track ‘To Ramona’ is taken from Dylan’s fourth album ‘Another Side of Bob Dylan’, released in 1964. This release saw Dylan shift away from the previously politically orientated, ‘The Times They Are a-Changin’’ to […]

Ultan Conlon “There’s a Waltz” (DarkSideOut Records, 2020)

April 29, 2020 Richard Phillips 0

Conlon has employed an impressive roster of session musicians to create, ‘There’s a Waltz’ which was recorded at The Heritage Studios in Los Angeles; a long way from his native Galway. Predominant on most of the […]