Album Reviews
Nick Lowe “Love Starvation/ Trombone” (Yep Roc Records, 2019)
He may be on the wrong side of 70 but Nick Lowe isn’t one for letting the grass grow underneath his feet and his latest EP is a case in point. It may only be four […]
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JJ Cale “Stay Around” (Because Records, 2019)
‘Stay Around’ is a posthumous collection of previously unreleased JJ Cale tracks curated by longtime friend and manager Mike Kappus and Cale’s musician widow Christine Lakeland Cale. Rarely can there have been such a rich treasure […]
Album Reviews
The California Feetwarmers “Gloryland” (Independent, 2019)
And, now for something completely different. Instead of travelling the usual dusty highways, we are going to take a sidestep, shimmy and jitterbug off the beaten track and into the world of the California Feetwarmers. Their […]
Album Reviews
Alanna Matty “This Past Year” (EP) (Independent, 2019)
Intimate. A word overused, often lazily, to describe the elemental voice and acoustic guitar approach to song presentation that is pretty much omnipresent nowadays. However, Torontarian (yes that’s a real word) Alanna Matty really does serve […]
Album Reviews
Dervish “The Great Irish Songbook” (Concord Records, 2019)
One has to be grateful that Irish folk veterans Dervish have not gone down the Rod Stewart route with this collection of thirteen classic folk songs, choosing instead to rope in an impressive list of guests […]