Reviews

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

Sideline

Sideline’s latest, Front and Center comes fully formed, a twelve-track release full to bursting with Americana-cum-bluegrass edge that at times slips effortlessly back in time to the good ol’ days … Read more

Michael McDermott

Michael McDermott is a true original, a guy with a grit-fuelled vocal delivery, fine zinging fretwork and an eye for arresting, story-telling lyrics that often seem to echo his own … Read more