Fervor Coulee’s Favourite Blues Albums, 2022

I do enjoy blues music. Of all the roots styles I feature at Fervor Coulee, blues is the music I reach for when listening for enjoyment the least: I listen to it intently while reviewing and writing, but I just don’t often go to the shelves searching for blues music. That changed a bit this…

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Tim Gartland- Truth review

Tim Gartland Truth TimGartland.com Tim Gartland plays the blues the way we at Fervor Coulee like them: close enough to the roots that we don’t get distracted by rock ‘n’ roll guitars and drums, and relevant enough that we care what is being expressed. “There is truth in the heart of the beholder,” Gartland moans…

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Fervor Coulee’s Favourite Blues (and close) Albums of 2019

2019 saw a range of quality blues albums released, and they were coming at me so quickly that I had to ask a couple PR folk to stop sending me albums mid-year: I was just too far behind to do more justice. But, of the many blues (and close) albums I heard this year, these…

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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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