Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves- Hurricane Clarice review

Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves Hurricane Clarice  AllisonandTatiana.com FreeDirt.net Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves’ 2019 debut was a highlight of the year before Covid, and Hurricane Clarice emerges as we enter the sixth or seventh false reprieve of the global pandemic. Recorded under unique circumstances, this new album is as exciting, engaging, and…

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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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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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Jake Blount- Spider Tales review

Jake Blount Spider Tales Free Dirt Records JakeBlount.com Little Richard invented rock ‘n’ roll. So sayeth Stevie Van Zandt, and I ain’t gonna argue with Little Stevie. What’s that got to do with roots music and the new album from Jake Blount? Not a lot, except this: whether we’re talking rock ‘n’ roll or roots…

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Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton- Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton review

Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton- Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton Smithsonian Folkways “That’s the old music,” is how Gaither Carlton, Doc Watson’s father-in-law once reportedly described that contained within the iconic Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music. It is a subject Carlton knew well, as did Watson. These recordings, contemporaneous to music released on…

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Dale Ann Bradley & Tina Adair and Jesse McReynolds reviews

Two reviews have been published at Country Standard Time. Dale Ann Bradley & Tina Adair have worked together previously, but this is their first album of duets. We don’t hear from Grand Ole Opry and Bluegrass Hall of Fame member Jesse McReynolds as frequently as once we did, but when the 90-year old legend decides…

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Vivian Leva- Time Is Everything review

Vivian Leva Time Is Everything Free Dirt Records “I don’t believe my papa meant for me to be the last of my kind It seems the keenest pioneers disappear at the worst time…” “Last Of My Kind,” Paul Burch When I was but a wee roots writer in (I think) early 2001, I recall seeing…

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Fiddle & Banjo review

Fiddle & Banjo Tunes from the North-Songs From the South http://www.FiddleBanjo.ca This has been a great summer for roots music. Whether the folk and alt-folk (whatever the frick that is) sounds of Norma MacDonald and Nick Ferrio, troubling, dark, and challenging sounds from the likes of Rodney DeCroo, Brock Zeman, and Gordie Tentrees, or breezy,…

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Anna & Elizabeth- Anna & Elizabeth review

Fervor Coulee regulars know I love me some old-time, female vocalists of the mountains and hills variety. No surprise then that I quickly fell under the spell of a duo that were new to my ears, Anna & Elizabeth. My review of their album has been published over at Country Standard Time. I encourage you…

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The Foghorn Stringband- Devil In The Seat review

I love this band. Unfortunately, I’ve never encountered them live, but am confident they would be a blast: I am most likely now too old to keep up with them anyway. Another great album of invigorating old-time from The Foghorn Stringband. The review is posted over at the Lonesome Road Review. Thanks for keeping up with…

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