James Reams- Like a Flowing River & Soundtrack Album review

James Reams Like a Flowing River & Soundtrack AlbumRedbird Music JamesReams.com Concise review published at Country Standard Time, here. Long-winded feature follows… James Reams is absolutely unique. As such, there is no one in bluegrass quite like him. Born in Kentucky, he came of age in Wisconsin and matured in Brooklyn as a teacher and…

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Doc Watson- Life’s Work: A Retrospective review

Doc Watson Life’s Work: A Retrospective Craft Recordings I look up and I am staring at a picture of Doc Watson (and Jack Lawrence) taken in Tacoma in 2001. Over my shoulder, his first Vanguard album has pride of place, and on the record and CD shelves surrounding me there are about as many discs…

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Ancient Fervor Coulee Bluegrass CD reviews, pt 3

A few more bluegrass reviews from the early days of Fervor Coulee.

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Ancient Fervor Coulee Bluegrass CD reviews, pt 2

Continuing to mine the archives, some bluegrass Gold…In a Way.

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Ancient Fervor Coulee Bluegrass CD reviews, pt 1

Going back in time to post some reviews from the early aughts, the first years of Fervor Coulee, with all of from the Waskaoo Bluegrass Music Society newsletter, That High Lonesome Sound.

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The Willie Dunn Anthology- not a review

I can’t truly review the new collection from Light in the Attic, a two-record set entitled Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology. Despite my best efforts, I can’t download the provided files containing the liner notes and credits, and without these it is impossible to share what needs to be shared…

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Dave Alvin- From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings review

My review of Dave Alvin’s version of “Odds & Sods” is up at Country Standard Time. I reviewed a provided download; I am missing the days when YepRoc serviced me with their Americana releases. Some gems in that catalogue, and I do love my CDs and records. This is an interesting release; the music is…

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Fervor Coulee’s Favourite Roots Reissues and Archival Releases of 2020

The Other Stuff: Reissues, Archival, Compilations, Live, Covers & Tributes. Being somewhat ‘stuck in the past’ (at least as far as my definition of roots music goes) I typically have no problem with this category of releases. Often times familiar—that’s the compilations, reissues, and (sometimes) live components—and more often fresh and revealing—that’s the archival, covers,…

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We Shall All Be Reunited: Revisiting the Bristol Sessions, 1927-1928 review

We Shall All Be Reunited: Revisiting the Bristol Sessions, 1927-1928 Bear Family The Bristol sessions are variously known as “the single most important event in the history of country music” (John R. Cash) and the “Big Bang of country music” (Nolan Porterfield), with Bristol, Tennessee declared the “Birthplace of Country Music” (the Bristol Chamber of…

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“New” Dave Alvin album coming our way

Fervor Coulee regulars know how much I appreciate Dave Alvin. His set with the Guilty Women at my first Hardly Strictly is one of the best I have witnessed, made that more poignant by the death of Amy Farris the week prior. For most of the last decade Eleven Eleven was going to be my…

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