8.3
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Ead Wood and Andrew Wanders Reviewed

Ead Wood – Emmeline Road songs tend to be immensely insulting tunes for the people about whom they’re written. Can you imagine being the lady for whom “Beth” was penned? Can she really deal with the excuses about “him and the boys just not being able to find…
8.5
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Simitree and Devlin And The Harm Reviewed

Simitree – Under Used Maybe it’s completely true that, first, all you need to be convinced that you need to make a change is too much of something. Perhaps all that was ever really needed was the incentive to want to desperately yell out: “Stop!” Before…
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Brock Davis - “Nothing Lasts Forever” Review

The earliest rock stars were allowed plenty of freedom. Sure, all the retro TV shows and the documentaries must be right about that. Still, the same music stars, the moment that they put their name on any recorded work, also signed a kind of gentleman’s agreement. They…
8.3
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Caelen Perkins and THE IMMUNE Reviewed

Caelen Perkins – Hold The Lines There’s a growing sense that many of the people in this world never really liked their fellow men at all, and that now they’ve been getting the opportunity to show just how much they dislike them. It’s not all a surprise that…
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Singing River - “Shoutin’ Good Time” Review

We’ve all heard the news. Hell, you could probably choose to hide out in the jungles of Central America, living off of rainwater and giant avocados, and somebody would make the time to come in every morning to tell you the desperate state of affairs that the world finds…
8.0
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Yuppie and Florentenes Reviewed

Yuppie – A Place To Call My Own It was inevitable that this was going to happen. The moment that country music replaced the blues in American pop songwriters’ repertoires, eventually, melancholy was going to have a Southern twang to it. This wasn’t…
8.0
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RUDY and Odd Marshall Reviewed

RUDY – Honey Dripper Practice your instrument and live enough so that you can acquire some soul, and you’re going to find yourself in a pretty lonesome place. Sure, when it comes to Western rock music, the blues sits at the heart of everything, but the vast…
8.0
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Jesse Creatchman and The Painted Roses Reviewed

Jesse Creatchman – Fortress Nowadays, bands that have been doing it for a while, for the most part, don’t even bother putting out new music. And the ones that are ambitious enough to record whole concept records every couple of years, don’t bother playing more…
8.8
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Squeaky Feet and Crab Reviewed

Squeaky Feet – Brainrot There’s been a competition for superiority within rock musical styles ever since someone figured you could either play fewer notes of “Johnny B. Goode,” and add distorsion calling it “hard-rock,” or add more notes, take the volume…