[rating=8.00] Chris Smither could have easily called it quits after his last release, the double -CD career retrospective Still on the Levee. Instead, Smither explores some new sounds, radically arranges
In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Crushed Coins, the new album from country-Americana rocker Caleb Caudle, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best
[rating=7.00] Seth Walker’s music, a fusion of style at the flash-point of blues and country, is that very distinctive sort difficult, if not impossible to categorize, much less pigeonhole with
[rating=7.00] Some records are so strikingly beautiful, they burrow into your consciousness from the first listen on. And when looking for obvious examples, one need only look to the band
[rating=8.00] When Levon Helm passed, his fervent wish, as expressed to his close friends like Jim Weider and Jimmy Vivino, was to “keep it going.” In that spirit, Levon’s famed
[rating=8.00] The Grateful Dead’s biographer and one-time publicist Dennis McNally has a deceptively brilliant style of writing, so in his essay accompanying GarciaLive Volume 10, he fully captures both the
[rating=7.00] Caroline Rose boasts a quirky kind of persona. Where once she would have been branded as New Wave, now her sound fits firmly in the echelons of modern pop.
[rating=8.00] By their seventh album, most bands are winding down into a comfort zone that will largely appeal to the core base of fans they developed earlier on in
[rating=7.00] Its cover photo of the band radiating all the easygoing informality of a family get-together, Three From The Road is replete with the kind of easygoing exchanges of ideas
[rating=8.00] This is a rather pleasant surprise, never having heard of Patrick Coman. Yet, when the producer credits denoted guitarist Peter Parcek and drummer Marco Giovino, Coman’s Tree of Life
