Michael Braunfeld- Driver review

Michael Braunfeld Driver http://www.MichaelBraunfeld.com Blind Justice Music There are days when I figure I am done being gob smacked: heard it all, have I. And then comes the day you (finally—sorry) open that CD that has been sitting on a pile for more than a month awaiting listening and review. Every single night is your…

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Tim Gartland- Satisfied review

Tim Gartland Satisfied Taste Good Music TimGartland.com A singing-songwriting country & blues harp player? Yes, please. One listen to Satisfied is enough to confirm: you were looking for Tim Gartland without even knowing he exists. His spoken-word singing approach—Tom Wilson (Blackie & the Rodeo Kings, Junkhouse) is fair comparison, as may be latter-day Mose Allison—is…

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Jane Kramer- Valley of the Bones review

Jane Kramer Valley of the Bones http://www.JaneKramerMusic.com About twice a year, I head down to the bunker and dig out Jane Kramer’s previous album, Carnival of Hopes. I am never disappointed; this 2016 release only grows in my estimation with repeated listening. I was excited then to receive Valley of the Bones for review, and…

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Craig Moreau- A Different Kind of Train review

Craig Moreau A Different Kind of Train Ever since Kitty Wells sang “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” there have been those who have chased that perfect “country song” balance between complexity of thought and lyrical clarity Jay Miller captured in 1952. From Mariel Buckley to Leeroy Stagger, Alberta has no shortage of…

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J. P. Harris- Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing review

J. P. Harris Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing Free Dirt Records Quick: Name your three favourite country albums of the 70s. Go. That was easy: Emmy’s Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town, Townes’ High, Low, and In Between, and Tom T. Hall’s Rhymer and Other Five and Dimers. And Waylon’s Honky Tonk Heroes. And…

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Buck Owens- Country Singer’s Prayer review

My review of Buck Owens’ unreleased (at the time) 1975 album Cowboy Singers’ Prayer is up over at Country Standard Time. It is worth a listen or two.

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Thomas Stajcer- Will I Learn To Love Again? review

Thomas Stajcer Will I Learn To Love Again? https://thomasstajcer.bandcamp.com/ This might be the Canadian country album of the year. Someone should tell the folks pushing  buttons at stations emphasizing forgettable Aaron Pritchett, Dean Brody, and Tim Hicks tracks. Steeped in the tradition of 1973 classics like Waylon’s Honky Tonk Heroes and Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys,…

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