Mudcrutch – 2 (2016) review
Mudcrutch - 2 (Reprise, 2016) Opening the new Mudcrutch album is the vintage song “Trailer,” which like the rest of the album goes down easy, and is a...
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The Long Ryders – Final Wild Songs (2016) review
The Long Ryders - Final Wild Songs (Cherry Red Records, 2016) If you’ve missed The Long Ryders on your alternative country rock journey, Final Wild Songs will be...
Eric Clapton – I Still Do (2016) review
Eric Clapton - I Still Do (Bushbranch Records, 2016) The phrase “Clapton is God ” originated during Eric Clapton's tenure with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Eric was a member...
Bob Dylan – Fallen Angels (2016) review
Bob Dylan - Fallen Angels (Columbia, 2016) With none of the arrangements on Fallen Angels being true to the originals, it would be easy to say that this...
Various Artists – Day of the Dead (2016) review
Various Artists - Day of the Dead (4AD Records, 2016) These epic compilations, and usually for a good cause, have always managed to stumble me, often leaving me...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Et Cetera – Knirsch (1972)
On the album Knirsch [which means ‘crunch’ in German, and explains the album’s cover] Wolfgang Dauner sets out to complete some unfinished business, ideas that he’d been unable...
The Asteroid #4 – ‘An Amazing Dream’ (2006)
Nearly everyone wants to consider Asteroid #4 as part of the beautiful psychedelic haze of the '60s, locking them into being a backward looking band. Please, allow me...
The Kitchen Cinq
The Kitchen Cinq - When The Rainbow Disappears: An Anthology 1965-1968 Light In The Attic (double vinyl edition) Since way back in the early 1980s when some of...
Jakob Skøtt – All the Colours of the Dust (2016) review
Jakob Skøtt - All the Colours of the Dust (El Paraiso Records, 2016) Listen: https://soundcloud.com/elparaiso/sets/jakob-skott-all-the-colours-of-the-dust-full-album Causa Sui drummer's third installment in his "drums versus synthesizers" collection may be his...
Volta Sound – Gypsy Friends of the Sun (2013) review
Volta Sound - Gypsy Friends of the Sun (Picture in My Ear, 2013) Listen: https://pictureinmyearrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gypsy-friends-of-the-sun What The Volta Sound do, is like nothing anyone else does ... and that’s...