Yoko Miwa Trio get even better with Keep Talkin’
Yoko Miwa Trio’s sixth CD release Keep Talkin’ shows how she has developed her cool sense of delivery. There is more ingenuity in her arranging, playing, and interaction with her trio than on anything she’s released up to this point. Aside from her own adeptly played composition, Miwa arranges Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, The Beatles, […]
Grace Morrison gets even better with Reasons
Grace Morrison’s new CD Reasons is made up of the country roots material she is so well known for and which she is so good at delivering. Her natural timbre reminds of girlish chirps, a young voice that sings with an older person’s wisdom and experience. “Come On Rae” combines Morrison’s girlish timbre with a […]
Black Cat Road offer fine document of their sound
Black Cat Road have been bringing their punchy, earthy brand of blues music to Maine venues for nine years. The band’s self-titled debut CD crackles with brisk instrumentation, soulful, raspy vocals, and true down beat grooves drenched in this traditional music. A lead guitar grinds its way into the listener’s attention on opening cut “Crow […]
New Haven prog rock band The Breakfast return to epic heights with Phantasmagoria
Connecticut prog rock band The Breakfast have released their third CD titled Phantasmagoria after a 20 year recording break since their second album, back when they called themselves Psychedelic Breakfast. This new masterwork reveals a band still capable of composing and recording gloriously epic songs that are packed with artistic flourishes of guitar, keyboards, drums, […]
Bayou Boy Orchestra provide plenty of tasty country, Louisiana, blues flavor on Son Of Swamp Thing
The second time around can prove a challenge for any group of musicians. Yet, The Bayou Boy Orchestra has come up with a terrifically fun sophomore album. Titled Son Of Swamp Thing: The Legend Of A Bayou Boy Vol. 2, it finds the merry band of roots, Americana players formed by the infamous Greedy Geezer […]
Jennifer Truesdale reflects true artistry on Through The Circle
Jennifer Truesdale’s latest CD Through The Circle is a full bodied work in which each track is packed with fine instrumentation to accompany Truesdale’s high octane vocal appeal. Every track on here has nuanced and vibrant musical accompaniment to support a towering vocal talent and a singer with numerous approaches to each genre she works […]
Sugar Snow does tremendous work with Woodface Reimagined, an interpretation of old Crowded House album
Sugar Snow, the band name representing singer Simone Berk, whipped up this re-imagined version of the Woodface album by 1980s and 1990s band Crowded House. Simply titled Woodface Reimagined, it is loaded with Sugar Snow’s arrangements that rock with edge, precision, and daring. I am not too familiar with Crowded House and had forgotten them […]
The Low In Between are off to fine start with Apart
The Low In Between are an interesting Boston band with an interesting CD. Simply titled Apart, it is brimming with fine nuggets of guitar and vocals in an alt-country manner. Yet, the rhythm section on each track make their own impression. All four continuously come together as four solid cornerstones in a sound that is […]
New Hampshire’s Arthur James, doing acoustic blues justice on Hey…I’m Still Here
Lightning can strike in the same place and turn an ordinary man into an extraordinary blues artist with the utterance of a singer word. I’m not talking about Shazam. I’m talking about New Hampshire blues giant Arthur James, a tall presence on northern New England’s blues scene. Last time around, Arthur James treated his listeners […]
Skyfoot mesh together many fine elements on latest improv outing Blindly On Through
Boston improve rockers Skyfoot deliver an abundance of fine musical flavors within their jam band sound. Soulful country rock could be one label for what Skyfoot plays on their new Blindly On Through album. With many of their nine tracks lasting over seven minutes, this could also make a fan of 1970s rock bands feel […]
