Review: Toby Walker – From The Ground Up
Buggy Pie Records CD/Blues The latest offering from New Jersey, US, acoustic picker, Toby Walker, is nothing short of a complete, masterful tour de force of blues-picking at its very best. Walker is a guy […]
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Live Review: Out on the Weekend by Nick Argyriou
Saturday 14 October, Seaworks, Williamstown Shrouded in Sea Shepherd ships, smoking laws, Stetson cowboy hats and suits of the Nudie variety, the fourth annual OOTW was less in terms of punters than 2016 but more […]
CD Review: Jeffrey Halford & the Healers – Lo-Fi Dreams
Shoeless Records Blues/Americana Whatever else might be said about Jeffrey Halford one thing is certainly true, the guy is a natural-born story-teller, a guy with a quirky eye on the world as it passes or […]
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Album Review: The Wreckage – Melody Moko
Available through MGM or on-line Americana/Pop One of the frustrations of the music industry is that all music has to be put into a pigeonhole, and once you are in that pigeonhole there are certain […]
CD REVIEW: Jim Roberts and the Resonants – Beneath The Blood Moon
Independent Blues CD This initially seems to be a new independent release from a new US band. But a few years ago the Jack Roberts Harvey Band punched out an excellent, pulsing blues album called […]
Live Review: Cahors Blues Festival, Cahors, France
July 11 – July 15 2017 Cahors Blues Festival in the southern, midi-Pyrenean region of France, is now the country’s true premiere annual blues music event, a title previously held by Cognac Blues Passions a […]
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Live Review: Julien Baker, Northcote Social Club
Saturday July 15 “Trash people are people too, you know?” whispers Memphis moodie Julien Baker through the dark Northcote Social Club cavern. Baker makes the call in reference to a scratchy start to her 45-minute […]
CD Review: The Turner Brown Band – Sliding Steel
Independent / Rocket Over the course of a storied career that’s currently in its third decade, Australian guitarist Dom Turner has made a hell of a lot of music. Perhaps most noted for his role […]
Cd Review: Rory Ellis – One Skin
Independent Over the course of his solo career, which now extends to eight full-length releases since his 2000 debut, Ride, Rory Ellis has slowly but surely cemented his place within the Australian Americana scene. Perhaps […]
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CD Review: Thomas Wynn & The Believers – Wade Waist Deep
Mascot Records Essentially a southern rock record, Thomas Wynn & The Believers have added a bit of a twist to the style with their third long-player. Wade Waist Deep pulsates with a power perhaps more […]