DIUNNA GREENLEAF Trying To Hold On Blue Mercy 930 www.diunna.com This fourteen track project is ex-gospel singer Diunna Greenleaf’s stunning, originals-studded follow-up to her 2007 Cotton Field To Coffee House masterpiece. Accompanied by a … Continue reading →
ERNEST TROOST Live at McCabe’s Travelin’ Shoes 1003 www.ernesttroost.com Troost, 2009 Kerrville New Folk competition winner, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and particularly fluid guitarist is also an Emmy Award-winning composer for film and television which, … Continue reading →
SONS OF THE NEVER WRONG Church of the Never Wrong Waterbug 103 www.waterbug.com www.sons.com Sons, for short, is a trio consisting of Deborah Lader, Bruce Roper and Sue Demel. And their latest, Church of … Continue reading →
KIRK SUTPHIN & RILEY BAUGUS Long-Time Piedmont Pals Old Blue Records 705 www.oldbluerecords.com www.rileybaugus.com The title of this CD by Kirk Sutphin & Riley Baugus is particularly apt. The two met on their grade school bus. … Continue reading →
RED HEN STRINGBAND Birds Of A Feather Wepecket Island 016 www.wepecket.com www.redhenstringband.com Red Hen Stringband is a very special aggregation of master musicians. At first they appear as an old-time stringband with fiddle, banjo and all, … Continue reading →
TRUCKSTOP HONEYMOON Steamboat In A Cornfield Squirrel 1056 www.truckstophoneymoon.com/ Vocalists, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Katie Euliss and Mike West borrowed the title of their latest project from a true-to-life children’s book by the late folk, … Continue reading →
VARIOUS ARTISTS Stepping It Out Again! Veteran 10 www.veteran.co.uk\ Veteran’s established itself as very much a label of the people, documenting the songs, music and stories performed by ordinary people. You won’t find any … Continue reading →
MONICA DA SILVA Brasilissima Socialite Fiasco Music www.socialitefiascomusic.com The second album from Brazilian vocalist da Silva (who has long lived in the US), continues and develops the unalloyed joy of her debut. She mixes … Continue reading →
VARIOUS ARTISTS The Descendants Soundtrack Sony Classical 88697984562 www.sonyclassical.com There have been hundreds of Hollywood movies set in Hawaii, from Elvis’s “Blue Hawaii” to “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” The one thing they all have in … Continue reading →
STANLEY GREENTHAL First Song Stanley Greenthal 1006 www.stanleygreenthal.com Stanley Greenthal is a talented multi-instrumentalist from the Northwest of the U.S. First Song, his fifth recording, features original songs with instrumentals from Scotland, Brittany, Crete, … Continue reading →
