Cold Engines off to an auspicious start with debut CD Day Drinker
Cold Engines is an all star line up of musicians who have already achieved many things in the New England music scene. Taking their alt-country sound into the studio was a wise choice, resulting in Day Drinker, a ten track album loaded with fresh, perky country sounds pushed along with a driving rock edge. David Drouin, Aaron Zaroulis, Amelia Gormley, and Geoff Pilkington are onto something interesting and engaging here.
Willie J. Laws Band will make everybody’s Cornbread Moan with new album
Willie J. Laws is a blues journeyman. Laws has learned the blues by playing and singing the blues all over the country. His education has paid off in spades. Along the way, he has learned a little more than he knew before, and now he stands before us as an electrifying vocal and electric guitar presence. Laws gives off as much spark on his new Cornbread Moan album as he does in his vibrant live shows. Willie J. Laws Band also features bass guitar man Malcolm Stuckey, drummer Osi Brathwaite, and sometimes organist Bruce Mattson.
Joel Cage offers many fine lyrical and musical nuggets on Eponymous album
Joel Cage’ s latest album, Eponymous, offers a whole smattering of styles and approaches that the singer-songwriter expands on in each song. Aside from having something unique to say in each song, Cage makes his mark by putting his songs together with fine craftsmanship. His unerring sense of what a song needs shows itself in each tempo, sustain, and instrumental accompaniment he chooses. Each tuneful work here is the audio vision of a painterly scene in the listener’s mind. His songs are loaded with nuance because this former member of Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes still creates music as if he’s writing for a full band.
