DANNY SCHMIDT: Owls
DANNY SCHMIDT Owls Live Once www.dannyschmidt.com Schmidt’s smoky voice and rocking band make this an easy album to enjoy. Recorded at the Fire Station in San Marcos, Texas, the songs combine a rootsy feel … Continue reading →
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THE HONEY DEWDROPS: Tangled Country
THE HONEY DEWDROPS Tangled Country The Honey Dewdrops www.thehoneydewdrops.com Settled in Baltimore MD, but hailing from Virginia, Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish, were inspired by modern America and roots music. This is the first album … Continue reading →
JEREMY BASS: New York In Spring
JEREMY BASS NEW YORK IN SPRING Jeremy Bass www.jeremybassmusic.com Bass, following up on the Winter Bare collection, reveals another string from his musical bow with an album of Bossa nova inspired tunes. Many of … Continue reading →
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Anna and Elizabeth
ANNA & ELIZABETH Anna and Elizabeth Free Dirt Records www.freedirtrecords.com Multi-instrumentalist and singer Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Appalachian singer Elisabeth LaPrelle have combined to produce a beautifully crafted collection of songs of sorrow, survival and … Continue reading →
JEREMY BASS: Winter Bare
JEREMY BASS Winter Bare Self www.jeremybassmusic.com Jeremy Bass, a Brooklyn based songwriter, poet and classically trained guitarist wrote this album during the fierce New York winter of 2013. He was nursing a broken heart. … Continue reading →
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Murshidi and Sufi Songs
VARIOUS ARTISTS(Field recordings by Deben Battacharya) Murshidi and Sufi Songs ARC Music 2555 www.arcmusic.co.uk This collection of vivacious and colorful field recordings from Bengal and Bangladesh were recorded by Deben Bhattacharya in 2001. The music … Continue reading →
ALASDAIR ROBERTS: Alasdair Roberts
Alasdair Roberts Alasdair Roberts Drag City 613 www.dragcity.com Alasdair Roberts’ handsome Stirlingshire voice, ancient new lyrics and honed Bert Jansch-acoustic style make this a pearl of an album, as lost and found love haunts … Continue reading →
BBC’s Full-Cast Dramatization of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
LEO TOLSTOY’s War and Peace dramatized by Timberlake Wertenbaker BBC Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk On a misty grey New Year’s Day, BBC radio 4, a speech station in England broadcast a 10-hour audio play version … Continue reading →
Pride: a film by Matthew Warchus
Pride a film by Matthew Warchus Calamity Films www.calamityfilms.co.uk Sweet, slightly mawkish but uplifting. Not words I would associate with the British Miners’ Strike of 1984-85. Pride directed by Matthew Warchus is the ‘feelgood’ … Continue reading →