Compact Capsules for 04/10/07 by Dan Ferguson Lucinda Williams West Lost Highway Records On her new release called West, Lucinda Williams opts for a slow groove of a record, with big time production value. To get there, she enlisted the talents of masterful knob turner Hal […]
Compact Capsules for 03/27/07 by Dan Ferguson The common thread with this week’s reviews is the comeback trail, namely the return of former original lead singer of the Shangri-Las Mary Weiss and Cleveland one hit garage wonder The Alarm Clocks. Actually, there’s a second common thread […]
Well folks, I attended my 2nd SXSW in Austin last week and like the first time, it was an overwhleming experience. Bars, burger joints, coffee shops, pizza places, taco joints, art stores, parking lots, private homes, you name it there were bands playing. 1300 invited to […]
Compact Capsules for 03/15/07 by Dan Ferguson Jon Rauhouse Steel Guitar Heart Attack Bloodshot Records BS-133 Go back to the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s and solo albums from steel guitarists were released with some regularity. Speedy West, Lloyd Green, Jerry Byrd, to name a few, in […]
Musically speaking, each of these ladies has been moving me for awhile. Ms Jewell, who has a terrific record out called Boundary County, just played a house concert at my home a week ago that left the 50+ attendees pretty stunned. She’s got the voice, the […]
Wow, a blog of my own. I had asked our esteemed webmeister Bill 3 months or so back about setting something up and plum forgot about it until his e-mail a few days ago that we’re up and in business. So what’s the vision here? Well, […]
Compact Capsules for 03/081/07 by Dan Ferguson Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter Like, Love, Lust and the Open Halls of the Soul Barsuk Records With Providence roots for a spell (she degreed in photography at RISD in the mid-1990s), dusky-voiced Jesse Sykes along with her […]
Compact Capsules for 03/01/07 by Dan Ferguson The Silos Come On Like the Fast Lane Bloodshot Records BS137 An art rock collective on the trendy New York City scene that had much wallop as it did groove was the quick and dirty on The Silos when […]
Compact Capsules for 02/22/07 by Dan Ferguson Southern Culture On the Skids Countrypolitan Favorites Yep Roc Records YEP2124 Reaching its zenith in the late 1960s and early 1970s, countrypolitan was the smoothed-over, more pop leaning mainstream country successor to the Nashville Sound. Whereas RCA record exec […]
Compact Capsules for 02/15/07 by Dan Ferguson Amy Allison Everything and Nothing Too Shoeshine Records SPIT027 Sad songs, flat out heart smashers, all popped up with somewhere to go lay the groundwork for the latest release from NYC sad girl Amy Allison. Daughter of jazz great […]
