Robbie Fulks- Bluegrass Vacation review

Robbie Fulks Bluegrass Vacation Compass Records Bluegrass Vacation was one of the most highly anticipated roots albums of the year ever since word started leaking that Robbie Fulks was going full-bluegrass on his next album. Okay, maybe only in my house. The Americana Outcast has been delivering spellbinding albums since the late 90s, but has…

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Colin Hay- I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself review

Colin Hay I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself Compass Records The covers album has become routine during these Covid times, and we can’t expect every artist to be as ambitious as Lucinda Williams has been, her six-volume, Lu’s Jukebox series the standard against which all others might be measured. Still, one-off, home-based…

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Shannon McNally- The Waylon Sessions review

Compass Records My review of Shannon McNally’s straight arrow, honest and true tribute to Waylon Jennings is up at Country Standard Time. The review is linked through here. Just click. Darn it, it’s good!

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Special Consensus- Chicago Barn Dance review

Outside Dale Ann Bradley, I am hard pressed to find a bluegrass act that has been more consistently excellent over the last decade than mid-west bluegrass band (The) Special Consensus. Chicago Barn Dance adds to the vigour of that assertion. Read all about it over at Fervor Coulee Bluegrass. Highly recommended. Jeff at Country Standard…

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Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley- World Full of Blues review

I’ve been away the last several days, and while I was gone Exclaim! published my review of Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley’s latest, World Full of Blues. Link is here: https://exclaim.ca/music/article/rob_ickes_and_trey_hensley-world_full_of_blues It is a stout recording I highly recommend.

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Molly Tuttle- When You’re Ready & Joey Landreth- Hindsight reviews

My review of Molly Tuttle’s ‘debut’ album is published over at Country Standard Time. I am well aware of who she is and why she is well-respected, but I just don’t hear bluegrass in her music- not on the previous Rise, and certainly not here. What I do appreciate is her ‘big tent’ approach to…

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Bobby Osborne- Original review

My review of Original, Bobby Osborne’s Compass Records album, has been posted to the Country Standard Time website, linked here. It is a good album, but not a great one. There is much to enjoy musically, and Osborne’s voice has lost little of its power. Musically, there is less bluegrass drive throughout this recording, but the…

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Infamous Stringdusters- Laws of Gravity review

Over at Fervor Coulee Bluegrass, I have posted my review of The Infamous Stringduster’s seventh album, Laws of Gravity. It is a pretty terrific album, one that continues their evolution within their definition of bluegrass, newgrass, jam-band, big tent acoustic Americana. I quite enjoyed the album. In preparation of writing the review, I went back to…

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Reviews recently posted elsewhere

I was asked to contribute some reviews to Lonesome Road Review recently. I am likely writing a little less for LLR and Country Standard Time than I had in the past, but I do find time to get a couple or three done monthly. These days, there is little to no money in freelance writing…

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Catching Up on Missed Cross-Posts

I try to link through everything I write for Lonesome Road Review, Country Standard Time, and Fervor Coulee Bluegrass here at Fervor Coulee, but inevitably some items get missed. While watching the new Bear Family DVD of BR5-49’s live 1996 German show, I thought I would try to catch some of the missed links. I’m…

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