Album Reviews
Purple Mountains “Purple Mountains” (Drag City, 2019)
After ten years on the sidelines, David Berman has decided to chime in with a new album under a new name. If we take him at his word, ten years ago his biggest fear was that […]
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Album Reviews
Various Artists “The Rough Guide To Country Blues (Reborn and Remastered)” (World Music Network, 2019)
This is an album that does exactly what it says on the tin. The exquisite notes that accompany this comprehensive study of country blues do much to set its place within the history of popular music […]
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Norman Salant “Always All Around You” (Northcove, 2019)
Norman Salant, the saxophonist and composer, has re-invented himself as a singer-songwriter, finding a fresh sense of creative freedom in the lyrical, verbal expressions on ‘Always All Around You’. Here are ten pop-folk songs that are […]
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Jesse Dayton “Mix Tape Volume 1” (Blue Elan Records, 2019)
Jesse Dayton’s formative musical experience was apparently seeing The Clash supported by Joe Ely, and the spirit of both those artists is all over Dayton’s new album. Collections of covers can be tricky to manage, needing […]
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Book Review – Matthew Frye Jacobson “One Grain of Sand” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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 […]