Rick Bayles

Book Review – Matthew Frye Jacobson “One Grain of Sand” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

July 12, 2019 Rick Bayles 0

There are some records that just seem to find their place in history – Neil Young’s ‘Ohio’ and the Kent State massacre, U2’s ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ and The Troubles in Northern Ireland, Country Joe McDonald’s ‘Feel […]

House And Land “Across The Field” (Thrill Jockey Records, 2019)

July 2, 2019 Rick Bayles 0

This is hard core American Folk Music – definitely not for the faint hearted! House and Land are Guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Sarah Louise and fiddler/banjoist Sally Anne Morgan and they draw their rich and fascinating material from Appalachia, […]

Michael Roberts “Mixed Emotions” (Lost Honey Records, 2019)

June 7, 2019 Rick Bayles 0

Michael Roberts, leader of alt country band Wooden Dinosaur, steps up into the spotlight for his debut solo album, ‘Mixed Emotions’, a collection of nine songs written by Roberts himself. I’m guessing he simply felt that […]

Book Review – Michael Washburn “Southern Accents” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

May 29, 2019 Rick Bayles 0

Here we have the latest in Bloomsbury Academic’s excellent 33 1/3 series. For those of you not familiar with these books they are, basically, album liner notes on steroids! For anyone that really wants to get […]

Mike Frazier “Where The Valley Kissed The Sky” (Geneva Records, 2019)

May 23, 2019 Rick Bayles 0

Mike Frazier hails from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia and it’s this region that informs and infuses his new album ‘Where The Valley Kissed The Sky’, with the singer/songwriter drawing on his observations -living and working […]