CD Reviews

Linda Marks CD shines brightly on many fine Moments

Linda Marks’ latest CD Moments is a fine document of where that Boston jazz lady is at. She might be at her zenith, a height where beauty and art combing into something memorable. Moments is loaded with fine originals and several outstanding renditions of some of the best recordings of our times. Combining her pop […]

Ruby Rose Fox turns artistic, narcissistic self indulgence into something brilliant on Salt

Ruby Rose Fox turns artistic, narcissistic self indulgence into something brilliant on Salt

Ruby Rose Fox has recently released her second full length CD, Salt, and it’s a wide departure from her debut disc, Domestic. Whereas Domestic rocked things up with driving beats and R&B influences, Salt is a slab of artistic self-indulgence, with Fox letting her contralto voice, unusual lyrics, and new ideas sprawl out in down […]

Cosmos Sunshine's Comes With The Fall is pure rock and roll fun

Cosmos Sunshine’s Comes With The Fall is pure rock and roll fun

Cosmos Sunshine’s new CD Comes With The Fall finds the Connecticut indie rock artist being very independent of what everyone else is trying in Connecticut. Sunshine makes the most of his class rock influences and spreads them across the breadth, depth, and width of this fine piece of work. “Doomsman Of The Year” opens the […]

Belle Of The Fall most certainly “Rise Up” with aptly titled CD

Belle Of The Fall released this Rise Up CD to much fanfare not too many months ago. Since then, it’s been nominated for awards and has received plenty of favorable reviews. Belle Of The Fall is a duo comprised of Tracy Walton and Julia Autumn Ford, two Connecticut singer-songwriters well respected in their own rights […]

Kate Callahan's new Triumph CD reveals her many lyrical, musical strengths

Kate Callahan’s new Triumph CD reveals her many lyrical, musical strengths

Connecticut singer-songwriter Kate Callahan has dropped her third full length CD, Triumph. As on her previous recordings, this former Connecticut State Troubador maintains a quiet but powerful presence. She infuses her songs with feeling and personality without seeming to try. Natural as life, gentle as a butterfly, Callahan lets her voice and the singer-songwriter it […]

Jeff Przech & The Outfit take things to a higher level for this Connecticut singer-songwriter

Jeff Przech & The Outfit take things to a higher level for this Connecticut singer-songwriter

Jeff Przech & The Outfit’s eponymous CD is chockfull of Americana roots rock charm. The Outfit is a band Przech put together just to make this album of driving, flavorful, and tasteful rock and roll. While Przech and his songwriting and vocals remain the focal point, his well selected backing band help him carry these […]

Daphne Lee Martin conjures emotional honesty, makes bold artistic statement on Scared Fearless

Daphne Lee Martin conjures emotional honesty, makes bold artistic statement on Scared Fearless

Daphne Lee Martin’s latest CD Scared Fearless takes the genre bending singer-songwriter-arranger deeper into Americana Roots music than she’s ever gone before. It’s another nice new twist for her audience that has been curious about what this Connecticut artist will come up with next. A worthwhile listening experience, Martin bares her soul while offering some […]

Barbara Cassidy Band deliver grand, masterful expression of loss and longing with Ford Hill Road

Barbara Cassidy Band deliver grand, masterful expression of loss and longing with Ford Hill Road

Barbara Cassidy Band’s latest CD Ford Hill Road is a masterwork of expression. Mourning the loss of a relationship can turn many singer-songwriters’ albums into grand works focused on this part of the human experience. With advanced vocal ability and a band of nimble, subtle players backing her, Cassidy makes a huge leap into the […]

Annie Brobst bursting with talent on debut full length My First Rodeo

Annie Brobst bursting with talent on debut full length My First Rodeo

Annie Brobst’s debut full length CD My First Rodeo is sure to garner greater attention for her in her adopted home region of New England. On every track her personality shines through in her pure voice and her cracker jack band bat it out of the ballpark. There is an easefulness in her singing and […]

Lello's Italian Job play brilliantly on Volume 2

Lello’s Italian Job play brilliantly on Volume 2

Lello’s Italian Job Volume 2 crackles with hot modern jazz through 12 exciting tracks. Led by electric bass and upright bass player Lello Molinari, this gang of jazz musicians perform with a careful balance of skill and art and often leave the listener wondering how they pull things off with such speed and precision. Originally […]