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Nate Currin and The Deltaz Reviewed
June 12, 2025
Nate Currin – The Crying Wolf
Back in the 1960s, European popular culture had been completely taken over by American movie stars, rock musicians and all of their choices of fashion. It was common to see French or Italian actors or directors trying to ape what they…
MARK NEVIN and Bicentennial Drug Lord Reviewed
June 11, 2025
MARK NEVIN – Shining On The Hill
Oh, how easy it is to hate musicians, and, for that matter, artists of all types nowadays! It comes, especially easily, if the person doing the mud-slinging happens to live in a place where hard work, toil and stressing over problems…
There’s always an exception to the rule. And, we, as music collectors, hope that it’s the store, the streaming service or the critic that will reveal it to us. When they fail to locate it on our behalf, our instinct tends to be to blame the evil music biz bosses and…
Todd Adelman and Star Moles Reviewed
May 20, 2025
Todd Adelman – Another Bloody Mary Morning
We pay good money for our rock stars to be better than ourselves. We want to see confident people on stage who are able to do and say the things that we cannot. And, we’d prefer them to lead the kinds of lives of which we…
Dipsea Flower and Pat Hatt Reviewed
May 16, 2025
Dipsea Flower – Kiss The Sky
Reality’s got a wicked sense of humour and a way of stopping things before their time. The great young athlete gets injured before they can earn a trophy. The preacher who’s going to change the world gets shot by accident. The…
JD Hinton and Harry Fennell Reviewed
May 14, 2025
JD Hinton – Where Do I Sign?
There are so many movies, documentaries and books about rock stars available nowadays that collectively we should’ve learned something by now. What’s the greatest lesson that all these similar stories can provide? Well, if there’s…
Winter Harvest and Sara Trunzo Reviewed
April 11, 2025
Winter Harvest – Banditos
Guy Clark dreamed of himself and his grandpa as desperados waiting for a train. Warren Zevon was a desperado trying to forgo paying a big restaurant tab. And Waylon Jennings settled his love of bank robbing and bloodshed through songs that…
David Redd and Robert Connely Farr Reviewed
February 21, 2025
David Redd – Jitney Bus Blues
Technology is awesome. But you still gonna have to find someone to push all of them buttons. And don’t let them tell you otherwise. AI chatbots may be able to spit out endless prose, but they do it by ripping off and processing…
Kramies and Brent Amaker and the Rodeo Reviewed
December 15, 2024
Kramies – That’s A Midwest Christmas
There are plenty of things that you can ignore if you’re strong and stubborn enough. You can tune off to any of the world’s sporting events, including the World Cup and the Olympics. You may even ignore the elections…