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Music Review: Jeffrey Dallet Band – ‘Abnormal Oddities’ EP Is Potent Country Rock
'Abnormal Oddities' conveys first-rate country rock ranging from tender and romantic to all-out barn burners.
Read More »Music Premiere: R.W. Roldan – ‘Falling Star’ Dishes Out Authenticity
'Falling Star' is authentic country twang with guts.
Read More »Music Review: David Williams – ‘Tipping My Hat to Leonard’ Oozes Authenticity
'Tipping My Hat to Leonard' is intensely intimate, authentic, and elegantly simple.
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches on Their Unique Sound
This NYC duo's distinctive sound encompasses folk, Americana, world music, New Orleans jazz, Gullah Geechee rhythms and scat singing, and what I call good old hoedown music.
Read More »Music Review: Justin Shapiro – ‘Campfire Party’ Fails to Deliver
As it stands, 'Campfire Party' oozes mediocrity and offers little to recommend.
Read More »Music Review: Lyndol Descant – ‘All Love’
The candid lyricism of Carly Simon meets the easy listening vocalese of Fiona Apple on Lyndol Descant's new release.
Read More »Music Review: Magical Beasts – ‘When Love’s a Stranger’ EP/’Peninsula’ Evokes Gloom and Doom
The misery factor is contagious, leading the listener down into the abyss of calamitous unhappiness.
Read More »Music Review: Grayson Capps – ‘Scarlett Roses’
Grayson Capps' 'Scarlett Roses' is one of the best albums I've heard to come out of North America this year.
Read More »Music Review: Ray Wylie Hubbard – ‘Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ There As Fast As I Can’
In a just world, Ray Wylie Hubbard's 'Tell the Devil I'm Gettin' There as Fast as I Can' would be heard on radios around the country.
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