Album Reviews
BRIM “California Gold”
It’s trad, dad – California country rockers mine a rich seam, but there’s too much fool’s gold and not enough precious metal. BRIM’s debut album is intended as “a paean to the dirt-road back streets and […]
Album Reviews
Album Reviews
Cristina Vane “Make Myself Me Again”
A personal record of uplifting well-crafted songs. “Sometimes I lose, sometimes I win, I’m gonna make myself me again… I’m giving up on giving in, I’m gonna make myself me again”, sings Cristina Vane on the […]
Album Reviews
Charley Crockett “‘Lil’ G.L. Presents: Jukebox Charley”
Country music archaeology unearths some gems presented respectfully updated. G.L. Crockett was an R&B singer who worked in Chicago with local stars like Freddie King & Magic Sam, He recorded mostly as G. Davy Crockett, but […]
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Steve Forbert “Moving Through America”
New collection from one of America’s most distinctive voices. Steve Forbert is one of the great unsung troubadours of American music from the past forty years or so. His first album ‘Alive on Arrival’ was released […]
Album Reviews
Ryan Law and the Shelter “Ryan Law and the Shelter”
Hard hitting, big hearted, dynamic Southern-esque rock of the kind that never dates. One thing that strikes you instantly about Ryan Law and the Shelter’s second, eponymous, album is that they certainly know how to write […]