Webb Wilder & The Beatnecks
It actually did come from Nashville, this Powerful Stuff! That’s a reference, of course, to the much-revered 1986 Webb Wilder album touted by many as a seminal Southern rock tour … Read more
Album Reviews
Roots of Creation
Instead of scrawling a barely coherent mash note on wrinkled rolling papers to an iconic band they truly worship, Roots of Creation fashions a joyous, blissful love letter to the … Read more
Lamont Dozier
In the summer of ’64, I was just 17 and putting in many a hard day’s night in a Top 40 bar band on Long Island, when I developed a … Read more
Blind Lemon Pledge
If the name Blind Lemon Pledge sounds like an old joke, that’s because it is. Comedian/musician/actor Martin Mull, used it forty-some years ago on one of his parodies. However … Read more
Jerry Vivino
Every so often Jerry Vivino likes to step away from his late night TV role in Conan O’Brien’s band to make a jazz album. While Jerry is lesser known than … Read more
Ana Egge
Ana Egge’s tenth release again features her sweet vocal delivery and an assured grasp of acoustic guitar picking, at times in the style of Mississippi John Hurt, though, in … Read more
Tom Chapin and Friends
“I still hear that old-time music,” Tom Chapin nonchalantly sings in the early going of At the Turning Point, and he and his comrades spend a charmingly simple hour celebrating … Read more
Reverend Freakchild
Reverend Freakchild barrels his way through a number of related genres, but who wouldn’t, with the firepower he has gathered on this album? Guys who’ve recorded with Bob Dylan, Joe … Read more
Premiere: Tami Neilson
Tami Neilson is a Canadian-born New Zealand powerhouse vocalist adept at multiple genres, and Sassafrass!, her third album, is Neilson’s most coherent musical and lyrical statement to date. She added … Read more
