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Album review: EWAN DOBSON – Acoustic Metal
Candy Rat Records [Release date 06.02.13] ‘Once you see the line between metal virtuosity and classical music the challenge begins.’ So says Canadian guitarist Ewan Dobson whose 2 CD ‘Acoustic Metal’ is a challenging, innovative and hugely enjoyable CD. If … Continue reading
Interview with AYNSLEY LISTER – 29 Aug 2013
Aynsley Lister is back with his first studio album for 4 years. It’s suitably titled ‘Home’, because it’s his debut recording on his own Straight Talkin’ Records label. It also features his current tour band and is overseen by his … Continue reading
Album review: RAINBOW BRIDGE REVISITED
Gonzo [Release date 15.04.13] OK first things first. While the significance of Jimi Hendrix’s Rainbow Bridge concert was that it was his penultimate American show, there’s nothing of interest here for the Hendrix fans, outside of a few vague anecdotes … Continue reading
EP review: MAKUINI – Roll The Dice
Self release [Release date 05.08.13] There’s blues and there’s blues. While the contemporary blues world is dominated by virtuoso guitar slingers and jazzers who fall back on the genre due to a lack of material, there’s also a raft of … Continue reading
Interview with AARON MORELAND (MORELAND & ARBUCKLE) – 27 August 2013
Hailing from the American Heartland of Wichita, Kansas, Moreland & Arbuckle have been described as heavy roots rockers who incorporate delta blues, rhythm & blues, folk, rock and soul into a power trio line-up with a difference Aaron Moreland plays … Continue reading
Album review: SAMANTHA FISH – Black Wind Howlin’
Ruf [Release date 23.09.13] Samantha Fish makes much of her growing maturity on her second solo album ‘Black Wind Howlin’. Given the wide variety of relationship songs and a mix of reflective and self confident narratives, it appears she’s taken … Continue reading
Album review: CYRIL NEVILLE – Magic Honey
Ruf [Release date 10.09.13] And finally it’s Cyril Neville’s turn! ‘Magic Honey’ may have been released in the slipstream of his Royal Southern Brotherhood partners, but if feels more like the final part of an interlinked triumvirate rather than a … Continue reading
Album review: BLUES ‘N’ TROUBLE – Try Anything Twice
Self Release [Release date 17.06.13] Sometime between the mid 80’s and mid 90’s Scotland’s Blues ‘N’ Trouble were real contenders on the European blues scene and even made it over to the States. Essentially a great live band B‘N’T’s unofficial … Continue reading
Album review: MORELAND & ARBUCKLE – 7 Cities
Telarc [Release date 26.08.13] Moreland & Arbuckle are a power trio with a difference. They hail from Wichita Kansas and their blend of riff driven, southern influenced roots rock is shot through with essential blues influences, but not in the … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, boogie, guitar, harp, Kendall Newby, Moreland & Arbuckle, review, rock, roots, Tears For Fears, The Allman Brothers, The Yardbirds
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Album review: SONS OF HIPPIES – Griffons At The Gates Of Heaven
Cleopatra [Release date 16.07.13] Described as psych-space rockers, and more memorably as: ‘The Bangles on acid’, Sons of Hippies explore retro musical influences with colourful imagery and gothic moods. Their imposing wall of sound is interwoven with ominous poetic lyrics … Continue reading
Album review: ROVO AND SYSTEM 7 – Phoenix Rising
G-Wave [Release date 23.09.13] Steve Hillage owes his unique position as the godfather of techno and an all-round psychedelic overseer – he’s a contributing musician, producer and DJ – to his psychedelic rock past and his innovative techno, trance and … Continue reading
Album review: FLY LIKE AN EAGLE – An All-Star Tribute To Steve Miller Band
Cleopatra Records [Release date 30.07.13] Producer, engineer and multi instrumentalist and sometime Yes member Billy Sherwood has carved out his a niche for himself with a number of wide ranging all star tribute albums, and now it’s the turn of … Continue reading
Album review: GOV’T MULE – Shout!
Provogue [Release date 23.09.13] It’s a measure of Gov’t Mule adventurous self confidence and their essential connection with their fans, that their new album ‘Shout’ offers a groundbreaking bonus disc, with alternate versions of the same songs featuring different singers. … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Harper, Dave Matthews, Dr John, Elvis Costello, Glenn Hughes, Gov't Mule, review, shout, Steve Winwood, Toots Hibbert, Ty Taylor, Warren Haynes
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Album review: LEEROY STAGGER – Truth Be Sold
Clubhouse Records UK [Release date 04.06.13] ‘Truth Be Sold’ is an album full of linguistic exuberance and boisterous musical vitality. Leeroy Stagger is a Canadian wordsmith with a punk indie past who is joined on this album by the experienced … Continue reading
EP Review: TOM GEE BAND – Better Things To Do
TGB [Release date 14.06.13] Tom Gee is a fine white boy soul singer with a big band line-up that given the laid back nature of this 5 track EP sometimes feels like an extravagance. For most of the well crafted … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Things To Do, Daryl Hall, horns, review, soul, Tom Gee Band, vocals, white boy soul
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Album review: MARK PONTIN GROUP – Days Of Destiny
Moochee Records [Release date 08.05.13] Mark Pontin Band’s liner notes on ‘Days Of Destiny, makes clear the essential connection between his struggles to get this recording made and the thematic title track of a power trio album with real substance. … Continue reading
Album review: JOHNNY DOWD – Do The Gargon
Mother Jinx Records [Release date 05.08.13] ‘The record took two weeks to make, which is plenty if you know what you’re doing’, says New York based Texan exile Johnny Dowd. He seems to know what he’s doing, as he … Continue reading
Album review: ANTOINE FAFARD – Occultus Tramitis
Unicorn Digital [Release date 01.06.13] Fusion music often throws an unexpected curve ball at the humble listener, and prog fusion such as this with its musical density, ever changing time signatures and challenging improvisation sometimes pushes the envelope beyond the … Continue reading
Album review: THE PROOF – 100% The Proof
Note Records [Release date 31.05.13] Paul Cox has always been a singer in search of the perfect song and when the two meet head on, sparks tend to fly. And so it is with ‘100% The Proof’, an album that … Continue reading
Album review: WILLIE NILE – American Ride
Blue Rose Records [Release date 24.06.13] Willie Nile is a true blue collar troubadour with a poet’s eye for colourful analytical prose. He’s worked every bar, club and theatre in town, world-wide and he’s excited audiences big and small with … Continue reading
Album review: DICKEY BETTS – Pattern Disruptive
Retroworld [Release date 29.07.13] Listening to this kick ass record, it’s hard to imagine that the Allman Brothers Band legend Dickey Betts was without a record contract and hadn’t recorded for the best part of 7 years. He came back … Continue reading
Album review: JOHN KLINE – Different Drummers
Wet Present Records [Release date 23.11.12] With the exception of the title track which features drummer Michael Arata, ‘Different Drummers’ is a completely self penned, engineered and produced album by multi instrumentalist John Kline. He leads on guitar, but plays … Continue reading
Album review: JONNY LANG – Fight For My Soul
Provogue [Release date 02.09.13] It’s a measure of Jonny Lang’s maturity that he’s slowly but surely repositioned himself in the music scene as a dance friendly, contemporary white boy soul singer at the ripe old age of 32. I say … Continue reading
Interview with JONNY LANG – 26 June 2013
Jonny Lang is back after a 7 year hiatus with a groundbreaking new album ‘Fight For My Soul’, which falls back on his formative influences of R&B and soul. Judged simply in terms of relentless road work – that is … Continue reading
Album review: KINVER – The Stone House
Eye-Pea [Release date 19.03.13] The doomed romanticism and fragility of Nick Drake has a lot to answer for in term of contemporary folk music. His biographer Trevor Dann pointed to a foreboding and fatalism at the heart of his work … Continue reading
