’70s Rock & Romance Cruise
Photos By Alisa B. Cherry By Lee Zimmerman “When we talk about surviving the ’70s, are we talking about the decade or a certain age?” That comment from John Hall, … Read more
Reviews
Hite
Cabin fever played a role in the making of Light of a Strange Day, the immersive, richly textured debut album from Julia Easterlin’s new experimental folk project, Hite, that was birthed … Read more
Vanessa Collier
Vocalist/saxophonist/songwriter Vanessa Collier has burst onto the blues scene quickly. She is nominated for a Blues Music Award this year in the Instrumentalist –Horn category. This is only her second … Read more
Coco Montoya
Listening to Coco Montoya’s wailing, hard-edged guitar blaze away, you’d never guess that Montoya played primarily as a drummer for the late Albert Collins. Stimulated by an Albert King performance … Read more
Ruthie Foster
I recall seeing Ruthie Foster play, ten years ago or so, in front of 20-30 people on a makeshift stage outdoors at SXSW. Obviously, she’s pretty well known now. Three … Read more
Billy Flynn
At a time when ten songs and one half hour of music is often all an album offers, Billy Flynn weighs in with 17 songs and 70 minutes of music. … Read more
The Three Sounds Featuring Gene Harris
If only the walls of Seattle’s cozy old jazz venue The Penthouse could talk, they could go on for days about the greats who played there. The mind-blowing list includes … Read more
The Flywheels
The Flywheels is a psychedelic pop band. Their debut has been a long time coming, but once guitarist Kim Wonderley and bassist and co-songwriter Eric Scott enlisted guitarist John Moremen (Matthew … Read more
Joel LaRue Smith
By creatively shifting time, tone, and tenor, landing finally with a Latin elasticity and rhythmic tide “The Seed,” pianist Joel LaRue Smith’s bold first track from The Motorman’s Son, … Read more
