Album Reviews
Jesse Adelman “Strangers”
A superb debut album – richly melodic songs from Brooklyn that take in country, ’70s AM radio rock, folk, and Neil Young and Paul Simon doing psych-pop. For the past 10 years, Jesse Adelman, the former […]
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Keb’ Mo’ “Good to be Home”
Naive and bland or optimistic and soothing? Although as Kevin Moore Keb’Mo’ released an album in 1980, it was actually in 1994 that he produced his first self-titled disc. It was very much in an acoustic […]
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Leif Vollebekk “New Waves (Live Recordings ’19 – ’21)”
Studio perfection is replaced by live perfection with a touch more soul. Leif Vollebekk is a Canadian folk artist of French and Norwegian descent who has been steadily building his career, releasing his fourth album ‘New […]
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The Delines “The Sea Drift”
A set of bleak, cinematic, country soul short stories. Oscar winning material. The Delines have described themselves in the past as a “retro-country band.” On ‘The Sea Drift’ you can see why. Built around guitarist/writer Willy […]
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Simone Felice “All The Bright Coins”
Introspective autobiographical folk on Simone Felice’s first solo album in four years. Upstate New York artist Simone Felice, a founding member of The Felice Brothers and The Duke & The King, wanders through dark autobiographical territory […]