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 […]
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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 […]
Live Review: Jae Laffer, Theatre Royal, Castlemaine
Theatre Royal, Castlemaine June 25 There’s nothing quite like a private concert. On a wintery Sunday evening in Central Victoria, my friend and I ventured away from our firesides and were rewarded like Saudi princesses. “Bring […]
Live Review: Chris Smither, King’s Palace London
London, June 16 Talking with a relaxed Chris Smither a few hours before he opened his UK tour closer at London’s King’s Place, we both enthused about his simply wonderful song, ‘Origin of the Species,’ […]
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LIVE REVIEW: Chastity Brown at The Borderline, London
The Borderline is one of those small, some would say intimate – with good cause – clubs in central London that has hosted many of music’s greats from Ramblin Jack Elliott to Jarvis Cocker and […]