Three Thirds Band Buffalo Skinner: Tribute to Woody Guthrie Three Thirds www.threethirdsband.com In the wake of the campaign surrounding the 100th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s birth in 2012, it’s not surprising that a new … Continue reading →
Tom Brosseau Grass Punks Crossbill 025 www.crossbillrecords.com This brief 28-minute nine-track album is essentially a collaboration between a singer-songwriter, Brosseau, and a producer, Sean Watkins, who engineered and mixed the entire recording at his … Continue reading →
Tattletale Saints How Red Is the Blood Old Oak 003 www.tattletalesaints.com Guitarist Cy Winstanley and bassist Vanessa McGowan are New Zealanders, but met in the US playing jazz. On returning to New Zealand, they … Continue reading →
Ernest Ranglin and Avila Bless Up Avila Street www.avilastreetrecords.com A vividly enchanting, genre-bending 16-song project (eleven new Ranglin tunes among them) from the newly energized ska and reggae master guitarist – whose signature, muted upstroke … Continue reading →
RHONDA VINCENT Only Me Upper Management 007 www.rhondavincent.com Rhonda Vincent’s new album attempts to straddle her stellar bluegrass heritage and her love of country music in a most peculiar way. She has made Only … Continue reading →
Heather Maloney and Darlingside Woodstock Signature Sounds 2063 www.signaturesounds.com Things went “viral” long before anyone thought of the Internet. A hoofer breaks her leg and the understudy dances to fame and glory; an attractive … Continue reading →
Kim Beggs Beauty and Breaking Kim Beggs www.kimbeggs.com I spend a lot of time listening to singer-songwriters, and have become a bit tired of the usual stream-of-consciousness writing I hear so much. “This thing … Continue reading →
Flaco Jiménez and Tomás Ortiz Together Arhoolie 543 www.arhoolie.com Very few performers of Tejano and conjunto music have garnered the level of critical kudos that ace accordionist Flaco Jimenez has enjoyed over the course … Continue reading →
ROSANNE CASH The River and The Thread Blue Note www.rosannecash.com Ever since her 1990 album Interiors, which marked the move from Nashville to New York City after divorcing Rodney Crowell, Rosanne Cash’s songs have … Continue reading →
CORN POTATO STRING BAND Corn Potato String Band Corn Potato www.cornpotato.com Led by ace old-time fiddler Aaron Jonah Lewis, Corn Potato String Band can tear it up with the absolute best young old-time bands out … Continue reading →
