Andy & Judy bring plenty of musical joy and understanding to Another Ghost Town
Andy & Judy put together their new album Another Ghost Town with the upmost care. It is true folk music, rooted in the Americana sound and also in the American story. Work songs. Abandoned towns. A song about radio. A heroic athlete’s song. A song for the next generation. Much of the American experience is […]
Red Matter utilize their influences well on beautiful Northbound Train album
Connecticut’s jam band Red Matter reflect on their influences in their new album Red Matter. Yet, despite their traditions in their genre, they manage to build songs that also reflect how they use the jam band tradition to their own advantage while also finding room to stretch out with their own imaginative flights of fancy. […]
Namedroppers achieve much with latest soulful blues album Blue Diamonds
Connecticut’s legendary R&B band Namedroppers just released their swaggering muscular effort Blue Diamonds. Its individual members, Rafe Klein on guitar and lead vocals, drummer-singer Bobby T Torello, bassist Scott Spray, and keyboardist Ron Rifkin put together some startlingly good original music based on their influences while also turning in some strong interpretations of songs originally […]
Haunting and hip, Tim Ray Trio deliver the goods on Fire & Rain
Tim Ray Trio’s new album Fire & Rain mostly feels like it was influenced by the cool jazz musicians from the late 1940s through to the late 1960s. This trio is playing styles, colors and tones, and attitude that come from a time when hip cat daddios hung out in coffee shops and piano bars […]
Low Lily raises Angels In The Wreckage to new heights of excellence
Vermont’s folk trio Low Lily are back to their old tricks again. Creating an engaging new album, Angels In The Wreckage, must have taken much effort and inspiration. Their hard work pays off in spades as this disc carries listener along with its waves of motions, engaging sounds, and intriguing lyrics. Opening track “Round Of […]
Butcher Baglio and Estes created an exceptionally strong Gypsy Caravan
BBE dropped this new album into their receptive music scene and it couldn’t be a better album. BBE, the anagram for Jon Butcher, Sal Baglio, and Allen Estes, is the name of their combo. Gypsy Caravan is the name of their debut album. As can be expected from this gathering of talent, songwriting, musicianship, and […]
Nocturnal Adoration Society craft clever, fun sophomore album All The Time In The World
Nocturnal Adoration Society is alt-country mandolin and singer Jimmy Ryan (Blood Oranges, Wooden Leg, Hayride) and his wife, bassist and vocalist Donna Sartanowicz, pedal steel man Eric Royer and the rangy, expansive drummer Chris Anazalone. Their sophomore album, All The Time In The World, sums up the easygoing, jovial spirit of this combo and the […]
The Bluest Sky off to fantastic start with gritty, rockin’ debut
Boston’s country roots rockers The Bluest Sky have recently released their eponymous debut album. The Bluest Sky abounds with chirpy, twangy guitar from Andy Santospago, guitar parts that contribute greatly to this bands gritty, rustic rockin’ sound. Lead singer Chuck Melchin pours a heaping dose of acoustic guitar strum over these songs while one man […]
Dino Govoni’s huge talent is Hiding In Plain Sight
Tenor saxophonist and Berklee College of Music professor Dino Govoni stirs the soul while also impressing the listener with stirring melodic phrases that only the best horn players in jazz can build. On Govoni’s latest album, Hiding In Plain Sight, his mellifluous sax is aided and abetted by horn player Alex Sipiagin, pianist Henry Hey, […]
Wildcat O’Halloran Band prove their salt in concert with 2023 Live! album
The Wildcat O’Halloran Band’s new concert album 2023 Live! proves a worthy document of this blues band’s lively live shows. O’Halloran’s bracing guitar, Emily Duff’s plumes of sax melody, Tony Nedik’s snappy low end, and Mark Chouinard’s perfect drum fills come together in one hazy, crazy blues party recorded during First Night Northampton at Drunken […]
