Unleashed Live & Dallas Wayne reviews

More roots review from the extensive if not valued Fervor Coulee Archive:Charlie Robison, Jack Ingram, and Bruce Robison Unleashed Live Lucky Dog (2000) These singer-songwriters, here recorded live at Texas’s legendary Gruene Hall, are among the cream of today’s alt.country crowd. Each offers clever word play with compelling mini-dramas featuring revenge, regret, and good times.…

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The Start- Kieran Kane & Johnny Staats reviews

Late in 2000, buoyed by a seemingly growing and increasingly vibrant local roots music ‘scene’, I approached the local daily about writing a column on roots music. Intended to promote upcoming events and to feature reviews of important roots music recordings—and to allow me a way to get ‘free’ music—the paper (for some bleeding reason…

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Joyann Parker- Hard To Love review

Joyann Parker Hard To Love Hopeless Romantics Records When I reflect on the joys writing about roots music bring me, I can itemize many elements that inject pleasure in my life. Among them, and perhaps in the Top 3, is that in writing about music in the way I do—off the mainstream grid, without the day-to-day constrictions…

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Winnie Brave- Cheap Gin review

Winnie Brave Cheap Gin http://www.WinnieBrave.com Alberta music duo Winnie Brave return with their second EP of acoustic-based (but not exclusively unplugged) original roots music. Unlike their largely acoustic 2014 debut, the presence of synthesizer and electric guitar pull Cheap Gin significantly from the realm of the Welch-Rawlings and the Romeros; still, the subject matter of…

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Larry Sparks- Lonesome & Blue: More Favorites review

We don’t get too many releases from what was once the premier bluegrass music label these days. I don’t know the reasons, but I do wish it twernt true: maybe it isn’t, just my perception. I was pleased to receive a review download of Rebel Records’ new Larry Sparks compilation, Lonesome & Blue: More Favorites. The review…

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40 Years of Stony Plain review

40 Years of Stony Plain Various Artists Stony Plain Records As much as any label, Stony Plain Records—by most measures a small, Canadian independent—has impacted my awareness of folk, blues, bluegrass, and the various associated shades and textures of what we now call Americana and roots music. Going back to my late teens, I have…

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2014 Grammy Award Nominations- Only the Roots

And, as far as that goes, only the Fervor Coulee kinda roots. Over at Fervor Coulee Bluegrass, I’ve posted the nominees in the four categories I’ll be watching in February, if that is still when they have the extravaganza. This will get you there: http://www.countrystandardtime.com/blog/FervorCouleeBluegrass/entry.asp?xid=981 Many bluegrass connections within these lists. Maybe the world is…

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Rex Hobart & Bob Walkenhorst (& Jeff Porter) at Kansas City’s The Record Bar

Rex Hobart and his band…whose name I’ve completely misplaced in the increasingly cluttered filing cabinet of my mind…played a terrific pair of sets at The Record Bar Tuesday night. Hobart plays the Westport establishment the first Tuesday of every month, and while he hasn’t released an album is way too long he continues to sound…

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