Reviews

SouthSide Drive

SouthSide Drive’s Randy Bowling and Gwen Hana take listeners to church with their self-titled original CD, A New Sound in Country Gospel Music. The album’s first track, a rhythm and … Read more

Corey Dennison Band

Delmark Records is off to a great start this year, first releasing an excellent album from Guy King, and now one of the most talked about bands in Chicago makes … Read more

Jonny Rosch & Friends

Another great, crazy, loose night with Jonny Rosch, where the band members, setlist, start time and jokes always remain unpredictable. This night, at the Triad Theatre, tucked high above a … Read more

Kacey Musgraves

Photos by Steven Sandick Kacey Musgraves brought her Country & Western Rhinestone Revue to the overwhelmingly sold-out crowd at the Starland Ballroom, in Sayreville, NJ, and when she walked out … Read more

Seth Glier

  Photos by Jim Belmont In typical Glier fashion, Grammy-nominated Seth Glier and saxophonist Joe Nerney performed a concert March 12, to benefit the Post Chester High School Drama Club, sharing … Read more

Parsonfield

After ten minutes of Parsonfield’s showcase at Folk Alliance last month, Elmore photographer Mandy Pichler announced, “I think this is my favorite new band!” I wasn’t far behind her, and … Read more

Jon Cleary

Photos by Mark Smith I have been trying to catch Jon Cleary’s show at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans for quite a few years now, and for one … Read more

Edward Rogers

He’s the perfect singer/songwriter, the ideal personification of Brit Rock superiority. On his new album, Glass Marbles, English expatriate Edward Rogers demonstrates yet again why any and every new project … Read more

Logan Richardson

Every so often a young jazz alto saxophonist emerges that just completely stuns you with attitude, technique, imagination, or, in Richardson’s case, the total package. Arthur Blythe certainly comes to … Read more

Caleb Caudle

Caleb Caudle’s maturity is evident on this, his third solo release.  I used these words to describe his 2012 release, Tobacco Road: “Caudle has an eminently listenable, rather indistinctive voice … Read more