Wednesday afternoon, so it is instrumental composition time. You’ll recall that Beth Bombara has a new album coming called ‘It All Goes Up’ which we’re pretty excited about. Well, today we have an opportunity that doesn’t come our way too often to offer you our highly valued reader the opportunity to revel in an instrumental version of one of the songs from that album. ‘Curious and Free‘ has a great slow folk ballad feel to it, and a bit of a groove too that’s bound to send the mind traveling in a Western direction.
What greater pleasure can there be than to find an artist with a strong musical vision, and the band and great vocals to carry it off. For Beth Bombara is that artist - great swirling keyboard chords and grinding guitar are a feature of 'Evergreen' whilst Beth Bombara's vocals have…
Michigan-born Beth Bombara is a relatively new name around these parts, though she’s released a couple of EPs and four albums prior to this one. Judging by its contents though they should be well worth investigating because 'Evergreen' has ten excellent songs that blend contemporary folk and Americana to very good…
St Louis resident and punk rock refugee, Beth Bombara, might lack some of the credentials and accolades of her long-serving influences, Gillian Welch and Aimee Mann, but on this, her fifth album (sixth if you count her release with The Robotic Foundation), she delivers a collection of songs that strongly…
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?