BARRELHOUSE Feels Like Home
BARRELHOUSE Feels Like Home Independent Barrelhouse is Kevin Burke, an acoustic guitarist of no small talent and a singer with a pleasant if not remarkable voice. He sings songs that make sense – the title song is full of descriptions of his home and what makes him feel as though he is at home – […]
BIG JOE BONE Blues Grass Kicks Ass
BIG JOE BONE Blues Grass Kicks Ass Recordiau Awen This is the debut set from Big Joe Bone, known to his mum as Danny Wilson, born in London and now based in central Wales. He calls what he plays “blues grass”, which combines Delta blues and bluegrass and throws in elements of old-timey music and […]
BRANDON ISAAK Here On Earth – Roots And Blues For A Modern World
BRANDON ISAAK Here On Earth – Roots And Blues For A Modern World Independent With bassist Keith Picot his right hand man, Isaak’s latest classy album sees him transformed into itinerant troubadour Yukon Slim, recounting tales from his wandering through wildest Western Canada. Brandon/Slim’s vocal comes from classic smoky backwoods heritage, first heard here on […]
CATSKIN Catskin
CATSKIN Catskin MCW Records This album opens innocuously with Rollin’ Man, and honestly it did little or nothing to stir me to enthuse gushingly over Catskin. The guitar work though is a shining light in the gloomy lyrics of this and the second track Hoochie Coochie Man. Fortunately the quality of singing itself was a […]
CHUCK BERRY Greatest Hits
CHUCK BERRY Greatest Hits Chess CDX 2 CD set I first heard Chuck Berry in the early hours of one morning in 1957 as his pile-driving guitar cut through the static on Europe’s American Forces Network radio. At school later that day, the conversation buzzed around the yard. Jeesus! Did you hear that? What was […]
CHUCK E. WEISS Red Beans And Weiss
CHUCK E. WEISS Red Beans And Weiss Anti There’s no doubt Mr Weiss’s name is more famous than his music, he can thank Rickie Lee Jones for that courtesy of her hit Chuck E’s In Love way back in 1979. Also, there’s the fact that Weiss has not been exactly prolific, releasing only five albums […]
DAN BAIRD & HOMEMADE SIN Circus Life
DAN BAIRD & HOMEMADE SIN Circus Life Jerkin’ Crocus Promotions These guys are 75% of the original Georgia Satellites and 25% of Jason & The Scorchers which info should give a clue to this band’s music – loud, sweaty, shit kicking, good time rock ‘n’ roll which, if you are old enough, will immediately transport you […]
DAVE GOODMAN No Rest For The Wicked
DAVE GOODMAN No Rest For The Wicked Acoustic Music Records Upon first listen to the opening track Nothin’ But Bad, I couldn’t help but think as my heart sank, that this was a cross somewhere between Ralph McTell and Pete Seeger. Acoustic guitar, banjo and a distinct Folk feel to that song. My feeling changed […]
DEBBIE BOND & the TRUDATS That Thing Called Love
DEBBIE BOND & the TRUDATS That Thing Called Love Blues Root Productions This seems to be the first album from Debbie and the band, and it is a 9 track offering, (actually only 8 songs, as one gets a reworking) all but two of the numbers are self-penned and stand up well to close scrutiny, […]
DELANEY BRAMLETT Some Things Coming / Mobius Strip
DELANEY BRAMLETT Some Things Coming / Mobius Strip Up Sounds Another re-issue, this time with two solo albums from ‘72 and ‘73. Nineteen tracks in total, the first album being totally written by Delaney (apart from the traditional Down By The Riverside) and the second being co-written with Doug Gilmour. Both albums have as one […]
