Rodney Rice, Rodney Rice review

Rodney Rice Rodney Rice RodneyRice.com Rodney Rice has a way with rhythm and rhyme. He has been writing and singing for quite some time, but I only first encountered him in 2020 with his SAME SHIrT, DIFFERENT DAY release, one of my favourites of that memorable year. That twelve-track album is, in retrospect, even stronger…

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Skinny Dyck- Palace Waiting review

Skinny Dyck Palace Waiting Sound Asleep Records While I have quite loved everything Skinny Dyck has done on previous releases, I also appreciate his continued evolution as a country artist. On his Get to Know Lonesome album, one filled with terrific, fairly straight-ahead country tunes, the darkly expressive “Dreamin’” was favoured. Before many of us…

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The Gift coming to Leduc

Coming to Leduc October 13 is The Gift. We moved north from Red Deer just over eleven years ago, and the first concert we attended in Leduc was a great performance from one of my favourites, John Wort Hannam. I was so excited to be near the city and able to attend concerts whenever I…

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Fervor Coulee’s Favourite Roots Albums of 2021

Years from now, when we consider the best roots albums of 2021, we will have great memories. The second year of COVID allowed artists to release music recorded either prior to the pandemic or that which was created in trying circumstances. It was a year of breakthroughs for many wonderful artists, and even a breakthrough…

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Michelle and Jason Hannan fea. Howard Parker- Cheater’s Waltz review

Michelle and Jason Hannan featuring Howard Parker Cheater’s Waltz OneBlueNight.com I love me a country concept album. Waylon’s Honky Tonk Heroes.Emmylou Harris’ The Ballad of Sally Rose.Marty Stuart’s lost classic, The Pilgrim.Tom Russell’s The Man from God Knows Where.The Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera and—likely my first, Johnny Cash’s The Rambler.Paul Burch’s Last of My…

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Domenic Cicala- Come On Over: The Honky Tonk Duets review

Domenic Cicala Come On Over: The Honky Tonk Duets DomenicCicala.com I live for albums that I can repeatedly listen to, harmonize alongside, or move and groove with; the best ones, of course, involve all three at once. Whether your favourites are of the Emmylou and Rodney variety, the Prine/DeMent set, Tom Russell with anyone he…

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Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno- Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno review

Vivian Leva & Riley CalcagnoVivian Leva & Riley CalcagnoFree Dirt Records VivAndRiley.com Thirty seconds in, I was hooked; I knew I was going to love this album, the first from Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno as a self-named duo although Calcagno was prominently featured on Leva’s previous recording, Time Is Everything; as an aside, I…

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Not Fervor Coulee’s Favourite Roots Albums of 2020

These twenty-ish albums DIDN’T make my Top 30 roots albums of the year; still, a mighty stout list, me believes. I could spend a very satisfying weekend listening to nothing but these albums. Links to the original reviews included. Bubbling Under- honourable mentions, in no particular order: Victor Wainwright & the Train- Memphis Loud Ashley…

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Margie Singleton- Never Mind review

Margie Singleton Never Mind MargieSingletonMusic.com Margie Singleton has been around. Now 85, this veteran of the Louisiana Hayride and popular country music artist started making recordings for Starday in the 1950s, and found middling success through the 60s. Her highest charting appearance was with a Faron Young duet “Keeping Up With the Joneses” in the…

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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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