The Pine Hill Project- Tomorrow You’re Going review

From the dynamic folk duo Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky comes a wonderful, unassuming album of great songs made better through sensitive, engaging interpretation. The songs are all covers- not all well-known, thankfully- but even the most familiar- “Sweetest Thing” from long ago relevant U2, “I Know You Rider,” and Gillian Welch’s “Wichita”- receive treatments that are welcome…

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Putumayo Presents Acoustic Cafe

Various Artists  Acoustic Café Putumayo Records Attempting to define the singer-songwriter sound is a fool’s errand and fortunately on their latest release Putumayo makes no such claim. Rather they have gathered 11-tracks from names both familiar (The Waifs, Justin Townes Earle, Harry Manx) and less so (Trevor Hall, Jon and Roy, Fences) that share little…

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Red Horse- Red Horse

When I opened the envelope this album arrived within a couple months back, I took one look at the cover- before reading the names or anything else- and thought, ‘Why is Red House sending me a Tom Russell album?” Of course, they weren’t but the painting gracing the cover immediately revealed itself to me as a Russell; his distinctive use…

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Walkin’ Talkin’ Dancin’ Singin’- July 19, 2010

Another week passes. Looking forward to catching at least one day of the Calgary Folk Festival this coming week- plans are to be in attendance on Saturday. The week following I’ll be heading up to Stony Plain for the Friday of Blueberry Bluegrass- I’m wanting to catch Fred Eaglesmith there as I’m interested in the reception he’ll receive.…

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25 Albums I’m Really Glad I Listened To This Summer

I know I’m luckier than many. Even as a writer of marginal talent, I’ve been able to find forums for my writing, and as a result of this am exposed to more fresh music than other folks. Since I also spend too much time in both used and new CD stores, I uncover CDs of…

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