The Cactus Blossoms – “Easy Way” (2019) review
The Cactus Blossoms - Easy Way (Walkie Talkie Records, 2019) On Easy Way, The Cactus Blossoms have not only revived the style and attitude of the Everly Brothers,...
Jenell Kesler
Walker Phillips interview
Walker Phillips released a wonderful album on his God’s Eye Records label. Fans of acid psych folk will love it. On My Love Sunday, Walker Phillips trips out a...
Scott Hirsch – “Lost Time Behind the Moon” (2018) review
Scott Hirsch - Lost Time Behind the Moon (Scissor Tail Records, 2018) https://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/lost-time-behind-the-moon-2 A friend brought this record over, and as side one spun on, I began thinking...
The Moody Blues With The London Festival Orchestra – “Days of Future Passed” [50th Anniversary Vinyl Edition] (1967)
With the album being dwarfed by the brilliant single 'Nights In White Satin,' where so many radio listeners, entranced by the hypnotic flowing harmonies, music and lyrics, were...
From The Vault: Wilco – “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” (2002)
Wilco will forever be one of those bands from which I pick and choose which songs ride best in my back pocket, with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot being another....
Beachglass – ‘Sunroom Sanctuary’ (2018)
I was deeply hoping Beachglass would release Sunroom Sanctuary before the end of the year, where instead of heading off to a show, here I sit with “Hard...
From The Vault: Little Feat – “Little Feat” (1970)
With Little Feat being the brainchild of Lowell George, who was politely dismissed from Frank Zappa’s band by Zappa suggesting that perhaps it was time for Lowell to...
A Quiet Evening with Anthony Evans of ‘black sand’, by Jenell Kesler
Floating in from New Zealand, ‘black sand’ deliver a hypnotic series of fuzzed out sustained neo-psychedelic songs that are heavily washed in reverb and effects to enrapture and...
The Black Sand
Endless Blue (2018) The Black Sand passed so close to earth the other night, where like a vintage wayward satellite I could just about make out their reflection...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: John Coltrane – “Coltrane Plays The Blues” (1962)
A young girl’s barbershop adventure into jazz and the blues ... Most women adored the beauty salons that dotted the landscape of all communities during the late 1950’s...