LISA BIALES: Singing In My Soul
LISA BIALES Singing In My Soul Big Song Music www.lisabiales.com It is simple: for a really good time slap on a Lisa Biales CD! The Ohio blues chanteuse’s second album is pure fun … Continue reading →
THE QUIET AMERICAN: Wild Bill Jones
THE QUIET AMERICAN Wild Bill Jones Aaron Keim www.quietamericanmusic.com The Quiet American call their music old time folk music for modern times. There are many musicians who think they are presenting old-time music … Continue reading →
SEÁN TYRRELL: Walker of the Snow
SEÁN TYRRELL Walker of the Snow The Vital Record 003 www.seantyrrell.com To get a sense of Seán Tyrrell’s latest, think Woody Guthrie rated R. Like Guthrie, Tyrrell’s voice will never invoke adjectives such … Continue reading →
JOHNNY WINTER: The Essential
JOHNNY WINTER The Essential Columbia/Legacy www.legacyrecordings.com This double-disc overview of key studio tracks, drawn from material that originally appeared on the Columbia, Blue Sky and Legacy labels, as well as an abundance of … Continue reading →
Fingerprints on your imagination – American Skin, pt. 2
We decided to extend the discussion of Bruce Springsteen‘s “American Skin (41 Shots)” into two weeks. As a coincidence, we launch this post on The Boss’s 64th birthday–a celebration, of sorts, of his extraordinary body of work, developing many of … Continue reading →
Belafonte, Scorsese to Produce Mini Series
Martin Scorsese and Harry Belafonte are working together to produce a mini-series about King Leopold II’s brutal reign in the Congo. The project is currently in the early stages of production. While specific details are not yet being divulged, it … Continue reading →
Mandolinist & Fiddler Kenny Hall Passes
We received the sad news that Fresno, Calif.-based master mandolin player and fiddler Kenny Hall passed away Wednesday evening, September 18th, following complications from a recent heart attack, just a few weeks shy of his 91st birthday. Kenny was a … Continue reading →
American Skin (41 Shots)
We’re focusing this week on Bruce Springsteen’s “American Skin (41 Shots).” If you have any concerns about us calling this song a murder ballad, I encourage you to read here, here, and/or the postcript below. It’s going to take us a … Continue reading →
THE CIVIL WARS: The Civil Wars
THE CIVIL WARS The Civil Wars Columbia www.columbiarecords.com It’s almost impossible to listen to this album without taking the hype into consideration: a fairly meteoric independent rise; a major label deal; a dramatic and … Continue reading →
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Live at Caffè Lena
VARIOUS ARTISTS Live at Caffè Lena: Music From America’s Legendary Coffeehouse, 1967-2013 Tompkins Square 2967 www.tompkinssquare.com As one of the seminal folk clubs of the 1960s folk revival, Caffè Lena has few parallels. Founded in 1960 by … Continue reading →