MONROE FIELDS with CARL SAUCEMAN and THE GREEN VALLEY BOYS 1950s-60s Broadcasts Patuxent 259 www.pxrec.com Another excellent archival bluegrass release from Patuxent Music! This one spotlights mandolinist/vocalist Monroe Fields with Carl Sauceman and his band the … Continue reading →
Various Artists Guitar Heroes: Making History Stony Plain 1381 www.stonyplainrecords.com Recorded live at the midsummer Vancouver Island Music Festival in 2013, this once-in-a-lifetime gathering features four blues and rockabilly-infused and early rock ‘n’ roll-style Telecaster guitar … Continue reading →
NICK HORNBUCKLE Twelve by Two (Plus or Minus One) Corvus Records www.nickhornbuckle.com On 12 X 2 (+/-1) – pronounced “Twelve by Two (plus or minus one)” – Nick Hornbuckle takes up a dozen old-time … Continue reading →
DREAMERS’ CIRCUS Second Movement GO’ 0315 www.gofolk.dk In Europe, least, there’s a new wave of instrumental bands who have their roots in folk music but a compositional vision that extends far beyond the limits … Continue reading →
SNYDER FAMILY BAND Wherever I Wander Mountain Home Music Co. www.mountainhomemusiccompany.com More than a few years ago now, I was down in North Carolina when a friend insisted that I go to the Cook … Continue reading →
HARALD HAUGAARD Lys Og Forfald Pile House Records 0714 www.pilehouserecords.com This, as Danish fiddler Haugaard states in his extensive liner notes, is the culmination of a trilogy he began a few years ago with … Continue reading →
MAXIDA MARAK and DOWNHILL BLUEGRASS BAND Mountain Songs and Other Stories Limestone House Music 026 www.downhillbluegrassband.com Swedish bluegrass? YES! And who’d’ve thunk it! Maxida Marak, a member of the indigenous Sami people of Sweden, … Continue reading →
ALICE DiMICELE Swim Self-released www.alicedimicele.com I’m a long-time fan of this engaging singer-songwriter with an emotive multi-octave voice, so I expected to like this album. From the moment that B3 organ swooped in on … Continue reading →
Asleep At The Wheel Still the King Bismeaux www.bismeauxrecords.com Asleep at the Wheel moved from Paw Paw, West Virginia to Berkeley, CA, in the early 1970s at the suggestion of Commander Cody. Like Cody, … Continue reading →
RANI ARBO and DAISY MAHEM Violets are Blue Signature Sounds 2074 www.raniarbo.com “Americana” is such an ambiguous label that it often seems to connote little more than a song sung in English. If, on … Continue reading →
