Album Review: Reckless Kelly – American Jackpot/American Girls (No Big Deal/Thirty Tigers)
Reckless Kelly are a Country Americana band. Originally formed in Bend, Oregon in 1996, they established themselves in Austin Texas as a well-regarded Roots music ensemble.
Album Review: Ray LaMontagne – MONOVISION (RCA)
The New England-based singer/songwriter’s eighth album could have easily been recorded in isolation as he played all instruments, produced, engineered, sings and writes all the songs.
Album Review: Neil Young – Homegrown (Reprise)
It’s been a long wait, but after coming this close to being released in 1975, Neil Young’s Homegrown is finally out.
Album Review: Liam Gallagher, MTV Unplugged Live at Hull City Hall (Warner Records)
Liam Gallagher’s live show, recorded in August 2019, enters the UK charts at number one, three in a row for him. It is also the biggest selling of the Unplugged series since Nirvana in 1994.
Album Review: Beginners, Christian Lee Hutson (Anti Records)
Christian Lee Hutson hails from Los Angeles and maintains a low profile. He’s collaborated with Phoebe Bridger on her well received Folk Americana albums of recent times. She plays some keyboards and piano on Beginners. And he sounds like Paul Simon, especially on the opening track, Atheist. But that’s all I really know about him.
Album Review: Bob Dylan – Rough And Rowdy Ways (Columbia)
At age 79, and with 38 studio albums behind him, Bob Dylan still manages to prove he is an artist unmatched with his new album, Rough And Rowdy Ways.
Album Review: Teddy Thompson – Heartbreaker Please (Chalky Records/Thirty Tigers)
Richard and Linda Thompson were a dream musical pairing. Extraordinary voice and extremely gifted guitarist. Folk music royalty. Sufi’s of London again. If they were to have a baby, he would sound like… Teddy Thompson.
Album Review: Larkin Poe – Self Made Man (Tricki-Woo Records)
Larkin Poe are sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell. They are from Georgia by birth, and reside in Nashville currently.
Blues With Friends, Dion (KTBA Records): Album Review
My first serious musical addiction was Doo-Wop around age seven. Only You and The Great Pretender by the Platters. Runaround Sue by Dion and the Belmonts. One of the very greatest, most soulful artists I have heard. Voice as natural and clear as Sinatra, with just that right amount of grit in the velvet.
Album Review: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways to New Italy
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever formed in Melbourne in 2013. At the heart are three guitarist songwriters Fran Keaney, Tom Russo and Joe White. To complete the sound, they settled on Joe Russo bass, and Marcel Tussie drums. Three lads, sons of the Stone Roses and the Jesus and Mary Chain, were playing around, jamming in […]
I Am Not a Dog on a Chain, Morrissey (BMG): Album Review
I Am Not a Dog on a Chain is Morrissey’s 13th studio album since retiring the Smiths Air-Mobile. If you loved that band, you will not be disappointed.
American Aquarium – Lamentations (New West)
According to Wikipedia, Lamentations is is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE and is one of the books of the Old Testament in the Christian bible. As the Jews lamented the destruction of Jerusalem, so does American Aquarium singer/songwriter BJ Barham lament the state of the US…the South in particular.
Album Review: Moses Sumney – Græ (Jagjaguwar)
Moses Sumney’s debut album, Aromanticism, generated all sorts of excitement when released in 2017. Now comes the follow-up…a double album, with Part 1 released a few weeks ago and Part 2 coming in a couple more weeks. Seems like the perfect time to give it some attention.
Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels (Highway 20/ Thirty Tigers)
Lucinda Williams checks in with her 14th studio album…12 songs full of anger, resentment and soul.
X – Alphabetland (Fat Possum)
Well, if nothing else, this pandemic has brought us a few musical surprises. First we had two new songs from Bob Dylan, then one from The Rolling Stones. Now, from seemingly out of nowhere comes a new album from LA punk icons X.
Fiona Apple – Fetch The Bolt Cutters (Epic)
With rave reviews paving the way…a rare “10” from Pitchfork…Fiona Apple breaks her eight-year silence with Fetch The Bolt Cutters. So, does Apple’s 5th album live up to the hype?
Ron Sexsmith – Hermitage (Cooking Vinyl)
Normally, the arrival of a new Ron Sexsmith album would mean sitting through a dozen or so well-crafted songs that deal with the usual singer-songwriter tropes…heartbreak, loneliness, uh….heartbreak.
M Ward – Migration Stories (Anti-)
Despite being recorded mostly in Canada, M Ward’s 10th studio album, Migration Stories, is just about pure Americana.
Pearl Jam – Gigaton (Universal/Republic/Monkeywrench)
They’re still around! Pearl Jam present us with their first album since 2013’s Lightning Bolt. Gigaton is an album that rocks remarkably hard for a group that’s been together for thirty years.
Yumi Zouma – Truth Or Consequences (Inertia)
Now spread out between London, New York and New Zealand, the four members of Yumi Zouma have reunited for this, their third album.