Album Reviews
Mean Mary “I’d Rather Be Merry”
If you want festive tunes to go with the presents and mulled wine this is the album to play. Non-cliché Christmas music. “Mean” Mary James is 18 albums into her career and clearly the time seemed […]
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Album Reviews
Mean Mary & the Contrarys “Hell & Heroes Vol. I”
Dark tales to virtuoso gothic banjo. Mean Mary James is nothing if not prolific. If you think you’ve just read a review of her latest release, you have: that was ‘Portrait of a Woman’. Barely a […]
Album Reviews
Mean Mary “Portrait of a Woman, Part 1”
An eclectic mixture of folk songs and tunes. Mean Mary real name Mary James 42 & was born in Geneva Alabama. She was a child prodigy who could read music before she could read words, writing […]
Videos
Video: Mean Mary “Come Along”
Wow. That is how to play the banjo. ‘Come Along’ is the opening track on Mean Mary’s new album, ‘Alone’, due out on 18th September. All the songs on the album were recorded alone in Mary’s […]
Album Reviews
Mean Mary “Alone” (Woodrock Records, 2020)
The title of the new Mean Mary album says it all – ‘Alone’. It is Mary and her banjo. Or Mary and her guitar. OK, sometimes she combines the two into one instrument banjitar. Plain and […]