Mike Gendron offers multi-faceted vison on #Devolve
Rhode Island guitarist-vocalist Mike Gendron has released a saucy rock and roll album. #Devole reveals a lot of edge in the vocals and guitar and a touch of sophistication in its use of instruments like pedal steel and piano. Gendron rocks or soothes with an especially plaintive voice that maintains a sound all his own. […]
Dave Zinno Unisphere paint remarkable colors and play exciting passages on Fetish
Dave Zinno Unisphere is a good name for Zinno’s adept combo. Unisphere implies unity in a big way, and that is what Zinno and his men can bring all sorts of energy and urgency to their particular brand of jazz. Colors and tones are created uptempo in a way that makes a listener imagine an […]
Grace Morrison becomes a stronger artist on Daughter
Grace Morrison’s latest album Daughter is loaded with the fine combo of singer-songwriter sensibility and sweet country roots music she is know for.. Morrison’s smooth vocal spreads evenly over her support players, infusing each song with her girlish personality as they offer purty melodies that rise high and shine. Title track “Daughter” jumps into action […]
Major Spark make Beautiful Noise on superb debut album
Major Spark’s debut album Beautiful Noise is aptly titled. Beautiful Noise is loaded with seemingly simple rock song structures that offer plenty of catchy musical passages as well as hooky choruses. An electric guitar or two strut through all of these tunes in a way that brings a fresh perspective to simple approaches. Vocalists Mark […]
Linda Marks grows ever stronger in expression on Monuments Of Love
Linda Marks releases two albums a year, and each one is always a treat for the ears as well a balm for the heart and soul. Marks’ new Monuments Of Love ushers her listeners through these months of pandemic life with lively, lovely music and lyrical imagery of what life has become during these months […]
The Greg Sherrod Music Company shows true soul on Do You Feel It, and blues and rock ‘n roll too
The Greg Sherrod Music Company are releasing this dynamic Do You Feel It CD. Featuring Sherrod’s catchy, gripping original songs, his album blends and moves from rock to soul to blues, letting Sherrod apply his slick, slippery vocal to an ever changing genre in each song. Opening track “Rock Star” finds Sherrod delivers his soulful […]
John Stein works his magic on Serendipity
Jamaica Plain-based jazz guitarist John Stein has released another of his fine albums. Aptly named Serendipity, Stein, along with bass guitarist Ed Lucie and drummer Mike Connors, continues to find exquisite melodies with his guitar, seeming to pull them out of the ether, instinctively harnessing his music into something good each time. Each piece on […]
GrandEvolution take things to a much higher level with Glow
Glow, the new album from Rhode Island’s GrandEvolution, shows tremendous improvement since their last fine recording. Sarah Kenyon’s voice must have taken years to have a presence and to contrasts with all of the flintier elements going on around her. She lays her voice down perfectly in all of these ambient rockers, songs that have […]
Andy & Judy keep the warm folk music lively and moving on Let Us Sing
Andy Daigle and Judy Daigle, commonly known by their duo name, Andy & Judy, will be releasing another of their fine folk albums, Let Us Sing, on June 1st. The woven vocal harmonies and acoustic instruments this duo is known for are all here on Let Us Sing. It’s a treasure of an album for […]
Bruce Tarney sings and plays No Loud Music with great resolve
Bruce Tarney’s CD titled No Loud Music finds this Columbus to Nahant rocker belting at the top of his lungs as well as mellowing out for quieter, sensitive tunes that let him and his support players show their sophistication. This disc wax initially released just before the pandemic rendered our lifestyles into something resembling a […]
