GO JANE GO: Go Jane Go
GO JANE GO Go Jane Go Go Jane Go www.deadreckoners.com Go Jane Go is Kieran Kane, David Francey and Kieran’s son Lucas Kane. Kieran and David are the songwriters writing eleven of the set’s … Continue reading →
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BOMBINO: Nomad
BOMBINO Nomad Nonesuch 5342912 www.nonesuch.com Omara “Bombino” Moctar, was born in Niger, Africa, into a nomadic Tuareg family and grew up amid years of rebellion and strife, both national and personal. With support from … Continue reading →
THE JOHN LANGAN BAND: Bones of Contention
THE JOHN LANGAN BAND Bones of Contention The John Langan Band www.thejohnlanganband.com For an acoustic three-piece, the John Langan Band manage to make a rock group’s worth of noise. There’s guitar/percussion, fiddle and double … Continue reading →
THE CHAPIN SISTERS: A Date With the Everly Brothers
THE CHAPIN SISTERS A Date With the Everly Brothers Lake Bottom www.thechapinsisters.com When the roots of rock are considered, some five decades after the music’s arrival in the mid-1950s, the genre is generally seen … Continue reading →
TOMMY SANDS: Arising From the Troubles
TOMMY SANDS Arising From The Troubles Elm Grove Music http://www.tommysands.com The profession of troubadour-peacemaker is a noble one, and nowhere has it proved more challenging, and at long last rewarding, than in Northern Ireland, … Continue reading →
IAN TYSON: All The Good ‘Uns, Vol. 2
IAN TYSON All The Good ‘Uns, Vol. 2 Stony Plain 1367 www.stonyplainrecords.com When Ian & Sylvia split up in the early 1970s, Ian shifted from the duo’s northern hillbilly style to become a smooth … Continue reading →
DENNY FREEMAN: Diggin’ On Dylan
DENNY FREEMAN Diggin’ On Dylan V8 www.dennyfreeman.com Diggin’ On Dylan is kind of a postscript for Denny Freeman’s five years on the road playing guitar in Bob Dylan’s road band, offering instrumental takes of … Continue reading →
MONSIEUR DOUMANI: Grippy Grappa
MONSIEUR DOUMANI Grippy Grappa Monsieur Doumani www.monsieurdoumani.com Straight outta Nicosia, Cyprus, the trio of Monsieur Doumani are three young men on a mission to revitalise Cypriot folk music. Their first release, last year’s Cyfolk, … Continue reading →
DWIGHT DEVANE and BLAINE WAIDE: Drop On Down In Florida
DWIGHT DEVANE and BLAINE WAIDE Drop On Down In Florida Dust-to-Digital 24 www.dust-digital.com In 1981, the Florida Folklife Program released a double-disc, 27 track LP, highlighting African American music traditions, that was based on … Continue reading →
MARTHA REDBONE ROOTS PROJECT: The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake
MARTHA REDBONE ROOTS PROJECT The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake Blackfeet Productions 93001 www.martharedbone.com/ With the knife guitar slashes’ ominous undertones that open this disc, we know that long-ago London’s bard, … Continue reading →