CD Reviews

The Greg Sherrod Music Company showcases talents on Modern Sounds In The Blues

The Greg Sherrod Music Company showcases talents on Modern Sounds In The Blues

Taking inspiration from Ray Charles’s Modern Sounds in Country and Western album, Connecticut’s blues (and other genres) singer Greg Sherrod examines his own genre with Modern Sounds In The Blues. This eight song album shows what Connecticut’s gigantic singer tweaking blues idioms to see how far he can stretch them while remaining true to essence. […]

The Greg Sherrod Music Company show good Providence with new album

The Greg Sherrod Music Company show good Providence with new album

The Greg Sherrod Music Company is Sherrod’s band for the Connecticut singer to play out in Rhode Island. He also records with them and his new album titled Providence offers plenty of solid songs. Combing blues, R&B, and soul with the edge of rock and roll proves a winning formula for the giant sized performer. […]

Dan & Faith create a flavorful masterpiece with Who We Are

Dan & Faith create a flavorful masterpiece with Who We Are

Fans of Dan and Faith Senie, commonly known as Dan and Faith in the folk scene and in the singer-songwriter scene, will soon have their family of fans dancing a jig or jumping for joy to their new Who We Are album. The entire album is packed with deliciously good folk idioms. It’s probably going […]

Gamma Rage impress with intense debut album

Gamma Rage impress with intense debut album

Rhode Island’s hard rocking glam band Gamma Rage recently emerged from the studio with this frenzied, energetic eponymous debut album. Singer Malyssa BellaRosa’s beautiful and terrifying vocal opens the album with “Gloom,” a song part classic rock, part goth, and part whatever this band’s creativity reaches out toward and pulls in. BellaRosa burns through this […]

Johnny Hoy And The Bluefish blow the roof off The Fallout Shelter with down and dirty blues

Johnny Hoy And The Bluefish blow the roof off The Fallout Shelter with down and dirty blues

Johnny Hoy And The Bluefish dropped their latest blues oriented album onto the greater-Boston/New England. Only this time around it’s a live album. Blues Live From The Fallout Shelter. Playing a lot of traditional blues numbers, Hoy and his Bluefish serve up a fun party vibe that might make some wish they hadn’t missed this […]

Sado-Domestics get even better on Camouflage

Sado-Domestics get even better on Camouflage

Sado-Dometics have released another winsome, intriguing album, Camouflage, based on words used in stories by writer T.J. Gerlach Although their writing experiment is interesting, Sado-Domestics accomplish another major task. Their unique sound on this album raises their artistry, their status, and it should, on this album, bring them more recognition and a wider audience. Opening […]

NH country artist Jennifer Mitchell excels on gritty, flinty Still I Rise

NH country artist Jennifer Mitchell excels on gritty, flinty Still I Rise

Rough and tumble New Hampshire country and western artist Jennifer Mitchell just released her gritty, flinty album Still I Rise. Loaded with true country feeling and idioms, Mitchell makes her country strong. Opening cut “The Red Pick Song (Ride Or Die)” finds the Granite State country lady singing with a seriously good timbre for this […]

Anne Stott moves to higher artistic expression on Watershed Synapse Experience

Anne Stott moves to higher artistic expression on Watershed Synapse Experience

Anne Stott’s latest album, the operatic rocker Watershed Synapse Experience, builds a variety of song structure around her perfectly smooth, sweet vocal. Sometimes the music charges forward briskly. Other times it come straight down like a hard rain. If we take it song by song it becomes a sensation of mini works each with their […]

Gordon Thomas Ward brews wonders Walking On The Wire

Gordon Thomas Ward brews wonders Walking On The Wire

Maine’s Gordon Thomas Ward is one of those singer-songwriters whose ability flesh out his sound with a full band makes one question whether singer-songwriter is an adequate description. His multi instrumentalist talents include acoustic and electric guitar, baritone guitar, organ, mellotron and a a lot more. He can therefore place a distinctly personal accompaniment around […]

Chris Steele abounds with sunny talents on Tales Told Out Of School

Chris Steele abounds with sunny talents on Tales Told Out Of School

Boston area’s Chris Steele is a pleasant listen. His witty and wise observations of life are married to his sweetly sincere vocal. His songs are personal enough to remind listeners of something whispered into their ears by a confidant. A huge Rush fan growing up, it’s only natural that Steele wraps his singer-songwriter observations and […]