JJ Grey keeps a steady hand on the tiller. After a nine-year hiatus, Florida native Grey returns with an album of heartfelt hymns and soulful expositions to life’s purest pleasures that’s as bright and breezy as […]
Blue rhythms and after-dark declarations. On ‘The Reckoning‘, Nigel Wearne wears his influences proudly; part Nick Cave, Tom Waits, C.W. Stoneking. Each signifies; a card laid up on the green baize stage; death, the magician, and […]
Bandit songs for the love-lorn and trail-worn. It’s late, you’ve just blown into an unfamiliar town. In the dusty square, the crowds are gathering, and the band is beginning to play… Step into The Dead South’s […]
Road songs of the discontented… Self-aware and self-sufficient, Josh Gray, in his third self-produced album, ‘Walk Alone’, addresses concerns stemming from carving his own unique musical furrow with all the trials and tribulations that accompany it. Opening […]
A new voice born from the old blues. When Bob Dylan released his first album at 20, there was something otherworldly in hearing one so young deliver blues as bleak as Blind Lemon Jefferson’s ‘See That […]
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