So yesterday I listened to Rob Baird’s sophomore release I Swear It’s True. I saw the album on the Euro-Americana Chart, where it sits at No. 9. The only thing I can say is that I’m mad at myself for not discovering this album back in June when it was released, because if I had found [...]
So one group that has been around for a long time that I’ve never gotten around to listening to, (wait there’s one – methinks there are more than one!) is Great Big Sea. I did however, pick up an early album of theirs at the street sale on Union Street in Burlington a while back. [...]
So when I listened to “St. Vincent De Paul.” the first track on Ed Romanoff‘s self-titled debut album for the second time on my four mile run tonight, it remined me of Mary Gauthier‘s album The Foundling. Wait you listened to the song twice! The album must be very short, no the run was really [...]
Last week when I was reviewing the Euro-Americana Chart I saw an artist at Number 5 whose name I didn’t recognize (big surprise), the artist was Tony Denikos, the album Under the Church. I’ve heard a couple of the songs over the last week when they come up on random shuffles and have liked [...]
Last night as I browsed the Roots Music Bluegrass Chart I noticed a band at number 22 that I hadn’t heard before, the band was Newtown and the album was simply Newtown. I listened to a few minutes of the first track and it seemed like the time of album I would like, so I [...]
So a few weeks ago near the bottom of the Folk DJ list for the month of February, I came across the album titled Hangtown Fry by John Malcolm Penn. A quick listen to the first track “Moonlight Motor Inn”, was all I needed to hear to know that this album was going on the [...]
So it has been a while since a new folk artist caught my attention, but that ended last week. I was reviewing the Roots Music Report and the album at No. 21 Tilt–Whirl by Drew Nelson caught my attention. So I went to MOG to check it out, they didn’t have Tilt-A-Whirl, but they did [...]
So early this morning I was checking emusic for any new albums and sure enough John Batdorf’s latest album One Last Wish was finally there! I only got to listen one time but overall it sounds really, really good. I know I love the first song “Don’t Give Up On Dreams” You can check out [...]
So over the last few days I’ve been listening to several new blues albums including: Don’t Explain the new release from Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa, Peace Meal from Carolyn Wonderland and Choice Cuts from Big Pete. I have been enjoying all of them, but after the first listen of each album, the favorite is [...]
So forty years ago in 1971, I picked up an album in the store at the student union at the University of Florida, read the liner notes by Kris Kristofferson thought “This sounds good!”, and became a fan of The Mailman from Chicago John Prine! About a year before that Prine played many of the [...]
