Reviews
Albums worth your time
TheBear
The Bear
Hailing from the Muscle Shoals area The Bear was started in 2006 by founding members Nathan Pitts & Louisa Murray. Shortly after the expanded to 6 member experimenting with rotating on drums, upright and electric basses, guitar, pedal…
Retro Man
Jake Vaadeland
“Jake risked a lot with Retro Man, but risk carries with it the promise of the great reward that can never be achieved playing it safe. Congratulations, Jake. Rewards are inbound with their own one-way ticket. How does…
Featuring
Curtis Knight & The Squires
“Before he was Jimi, he was Jimmy; and before his name was above the title, he was a sideman, playing guitar for the Isley Brothers, Don Covay, Little Richard and others. In late 1965 and early 1966 (and…
Bitch EP
“Wilson’s The Bitch EP is the opposite of forlorn. It’s not a spell weeping into the wind. Instead, it frolics, skips and saunters. Wilson is bright” – @americansongwriter • It is so evident that this is just the…
Listening To The Music
Zephaniah OHora
“”“Perfection” is a very hard metric to measure when it comes to music. As a subjective art form, what is perfect for some and what falls short for others is often in the eye of the beholder. Country…
The Devil Makes Three
“these three know how to write a song. All of them are excellent musicians. From the speedy picking on tracks like The Bullet, to the laid back jazzy grooves of Shades, this group knows exactly what to throw…
Music City Joke
Mac Leaphart
“Like a more countrified version of John Prine, or a more compositionally-minded version of Jerry Jeff Walker during his gonzo era, Mac Leaphart immediately earns your ear and devotion with this handful of incredibly well-written songwriter songs and…
The Golden Hour
Firewater
“The Golden Hour stands tall as a flawed but remarkably good experiment in mixing up influences from all over the globe. Firewater’s main man Tod A. went to the source of his musical influences to create this collection…
Rain And Rivers
The Lusitania
The Lusitania was formed in 2005 by brothers Michael & Blake Duncan. They’ve since expanded and changed their lineup a variety of different ways. The Lusitania is a hard hitting band with drunken waltzes & punk-rock anthems -…
6 Volts
“From the opening notes of Cemetery Road it is apparent that the classic Fred Eaglesmith sound is back; it seems high time that the Fred of lonely gravel roads, lonelier women, frustrated Saturday evenings, roadside artistry and junkyard…
