Compact Capsulesby Dan Ferguson Rod PicottWelding Burns Amanda ShiresCarrying Lightning Good chance if you’ve caught a Rod Picott performance, you also got to see Amanda Shires, or visa versa. Picott’s roots are in New England (Maine) while Shires hails from Lubbock. These days each makes Nashville […]
Compact Capsulesby Dan Ferguson Michael FracassoSaint MondayLittle Fuji Records Going all the way back to his debut release Love & Trust from 1992, to these ears Michael Fracasso has always been one of the great unsung singer/songwriters of the highly fertile Austin scene. His five subsequent […]
Compact Capsulesby Dan Ferguson Caitlin RoseOwn Side NowTheory 8 Records She writes and write songs like an old soul, yet, Nashville-based Caitlin Rose is just barely into her 20s. She tantalized folks with her lyricism and big voice on her debut EP (Dead Flowers, 2009) where […]
Compact Capsulesby Dan Ferguson Various ArtistsNo One Got Hurt: Bloodshot Records’ 15th Anniversary @ The HideoutBloodshot Records A special 2011 Record Store Day release (and still available), the live compilation No One Got Hurt from Bloodshot Records takes the listener front and center to a 15 […]
Compact Capsulesby Dan Ferguson Those Darlins’Screws Get LooseOhWowDang Records From the trailer park to the garage. On sophomore release Screws Get Loose, Murfreesboro, TN-based Those Darlin’s pretty much ditch the white trash cowpunk novelty of their self-titled debut without ditching the fun. While Screws Get Loose […]
Compact Capsulesby Dan Ferguson Charles BradleyNo Time for DreamingDunham Records The House of Daptone, aka Daptone Records, has given us throwback soul queen Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings and now via their Dunham Records imprint comes the deep, deep, Stax-styled soul maneuvers of Charles Bradley. […]
Compact Capsulesby Dan Ferguson Drive-By TruckersGo Go BootsATO Records For Go Go Boots, the Drive-By Truckers headed to the legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals. The soul of that vaunted locale creeps its way time after time into the 14 songs comprising Go Go Boots. On […]
Compact Capsulesby Dan Ferguson The Cave SingersNo WitchJagjaguwar Records It’s difficult to categorize new release No Witch from The Cave Singers. Come to think of it, you’d be hard-pressed to brand any of the now three albums the Seattle-based trio. From the elegant folk of leadoff […]
Compact Capsulesby Dan Ferguson North Mississippi All-StarsKeys to the Kingdom Songs of the South Records Here’s thinking big daddy is smiling up above after getting a whiff of Keys to the Kingdom from the North Mississippi All-Stars. Big daddy is the late Memphis music legend Jim […]
Compact Capsulesby Dan Ferguson Middle Brotherself-titledPartisan Records For all intents and purposes, Middle Brother was officially born at an unannounced gig during the 2010 edition of SXSW. Formed by the frontmen of Dawes, Delta Spirit and Deer Tick (John McCaughey), the threesome had been noodling together […]
