Michael Jerome Browne- That’s Where It’s At review

Michael Jerome Browne That’s Where It’s At Borealis Records http://www.MichaelJeromeBrowne.com The first sound you hear on Michael Jerome Browne’s That’s Where It’s At is an expertly executed series of notes utilizing his Waterloo Jumbo King 6-string guitar. Appropriate, because ‘that’s where it’s at!’ MJB has been making records for a long time, and I’ve been…

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Favourite Roots Albums of 2017, so far

School ended two weeks ago, and I have been able to take the last week to relax, read, and listen—a great start to this summer. It appears that almost every online outlet has released their ‘best of 2017 (so far) list,’ so I figure I might as well get in on the action. If nothing…

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Eric Bibb, Tom Ewing, Rob Benzing reviews

I was busy writing last weekend, and the products of my efforts have been published over at Lonesome Road Review. Eric Bibb’s Migration Blues from Stony Plain Records: it is as good as you hope. Bill Monroe’s last lead singer, Tom Ewing, has put together a compilation of tracks from his late 80-early 90 cassette…

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The Blues and nothing but the Blues- reviews

I am not a blues aficionado, not even close. If you went through my music collection, you are likely to find many blues discs but you are more likely to find as many albums from the Williamses—Hank, Lucinda, Jack, Dar, Holly, Robin, Linda, and the like—as you are blues recordings, in total. I tend to…

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Eric Bibb and JJ Milteau- Lead Belly’s Gold review

Lead Belly’s Gold: Live at the Sunset and More Stony Plain Records I been a gambler, I been a rambler, I been called a low-down roustabout, Been a convict man down in Sugar Land, An’ I know what a chain gang’s all about… On his self-penned song that closes Lead Belly’s Gold, Eric Bibb creates…

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