Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition review

I had to take much of the past month away from writing, but I continued to listen to music. I can’t count the number of hours I spent listening to this amazing two-disc set. It is absolutely splendid, ideal for those of us who appreciate the old songs and the artists who keep them alive.…

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Steve Sainas- Simple As This review

Steve Sainas Simple As This Sainas Songs/SteveSainas.ca Steve Sainas has been playing the blues throughout British Columbia’s lower mainland for years, with his band Mud Dog releasing three albums of straight-ahead, contemporary acoustic blues/rock. Wielding an aggressive approach to resophonic and flat-top guitars, Sainas’ first release under his own name is an appealing slice of…

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Thomm Jutz- Crazy If You Let It review

I missed posting this review that was published at Country Standard Time late in 2017. So, here it is. Link to Thomm’s website.

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Mare Wakefield & Nomad- Time To Fly review

Mare Wakefield & Nomad Time To Fly MareWakefield.com Not all songs need be short stories, narratives replete with finely crafted characters and motivations, secrets revealed, and veiled, within and between the lines. But listening to Mare Wakefield’s most recent compositions comprising Time to Fly, I am reminded that I am glad when they occasionally are.…

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Emily Burgess- Are We In Love? review

Emily Burgess Are We In Love? http://www.EmilyBurgessMusic.com I don’t get too excited about too many things these days. Thank goodness I still get a bit of a jump when I hear fresh, exciting music: the day that stops happening it the day I’ll be ready to pack it all in. Still, I don’t get worked…

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Crystal Shawanda- Voodoo Woman review

Crystal Shawanda Voodoo Woman New Sun Records/CrystalShawanda.co Since her debut on both the Canadian and American country charts, it has been obvious that Crystal Shawanda could sing. Recording largely formulistic, and at times bombastic, country-pop, Shawanda found limited success as a mainstream country singer, touring in support of Brad Paisley across Canada, for example, and…

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The Stephen Stanley Band- Jimmy & The Moon review

The Stephen Stanley Band Jimmy & The Moon Wolfe Island Records With the Lowest of the Low again touring, their former guitarist Stephen Stanley has maintained his own path with his roots-rock Stephen Stanley Band. Reminding me a bit of The Rainmakers Flirting With the Universe, The Stephen Stanley Band’s Jimmy & The Moon is…

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Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters- The Luckiest Man review

Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters The Luckiest Man Stony Plain Records Bobby Bland’s (written by Don Robey) “Ain’t That Loving You” kicks off this latest blues missive from Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters, and the sultry take paves the way toward 70 minutes of the finest, freshest, and grooviest electric blues we experienced in 2017.…

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Gabrielle Papillon- Keep The Fire review

Gabrielle Papillon Keep The Fire The state51 Conspiracy When Keep The Fire was released several months ago, I listened to it several times—enjoyed it completely—and then set it aside as it didn’t fit my definition of ‘roots’ as featured here at Fervor Coulee. However, I came back to it over the Christmas break, and was…

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Rodney DeCroo- Old Tenement Man review

Rodney DeCroo New Tenement Man http://www.RodneyDeCroo.com Vancouver’s Rodney DeCroo is likely Canada’s most consistent neo-folk, rock ‘n’ roll singer. Over the course of six wide-ranging albums, the impressive wordsmith has never taken a significant ill-conceived turn. The early Rodney DeCroo and the Killers and War Torn Man seethed with aggressive and poetic interpretations of his…

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