Reviews
Thursday, February 16 2012
The Plimsouls: Beach Town Confidential
Recorded in Huntington Beach in 1983, this melodic white-hot power-pop ball of energy blows away any previous Plimsouls live recording you may have heard.
Thursday, October 13 2011
Henry's Funeral Shoe: Donkey Jacket
Crossing the borderline between electric-blues-powered rock-a-boogie and acoustic country-blues, this great second album builds upon the first and makes you long to hear the third.
Wednesday, September 21 2011
Various Artists: Piccadilly Sunshine Part Five
A handful of outstanding tracks book-ending some of the best forgotten bottom-end chart filler from the late '60s -- after the splendid fourth volume, Past & Present's latest installment takes a dip in quality.
Thursday, September 15 2011
Quintus McCormick Blues Band: Put It on Me!
Another 15 solid originals that showcase McCormick's versatile vocals as he moves from smooth operating soul balladeer to low-down bluesman.
Tuesday, August 30 2011
Elonkorjuu: Harvest Time
Rare does not always equate with great, as this album by an early prog-rock quintet from Finland demonstrates. File under "for collectors only".
The Matadors: Get Down From the Tree! [15.Aug.11]
Brian Olive: Two of Everything [12.Jul.11]
Lumerians: Transmalinnia [7.Jul.11]
Gardens: Gardens [24.Jun.11]
Kaleidoscope: Kaleidoscope [20.May.11]
The Sails: A Headful of Stars [13.May.11]
T-Model Ford and Gravelroad: Taledragger [22.Apr.11]
Redondo Beat: Meet Redondo Beat [5.Apr.11]
Various Artists: Piccadilly Sunshine Part Four [22.Mar.11]
The June: Green Fields and Rain [28.Feb.11]
The Sights: Most of What Follows Is True [5.Jan.11]
Willie Buck: The Life I Love [17.Nov.10]
Various Artists: Psych Bites Volume Two [21.Oct.10]
The Ingoes: Before We Were Blossom Toes [14.Sep.10]
Aviation Blondes: Edge of Forever [24.Aug.10]
The Hondells: Go Little Honda / The Hondells [4.Aug.10]
Moses: Changes [2.Aug.10]
Finjarn & Jensen: Finjarn & Jensen [29.Jul.10]
T-Model Ford: The Ladies Man [7.Jul.10]
Mighty Baby: Tasting the Life: Live 1971 [21.Jun.10]
The Kilborn Alley Blues Band: Better Off Now [8.Jun.10]
The Sheepdogs: Learn & Burn [1.Jun.10]
Wild Yaks: 10 Ships (Don't Die Yet!) [17.May.10]
Bryan Lee: My Lady Don't Love My Lady [12.May.10]
Ben Prestage: Live at Pineapple Willy's [11.May.10]
Captain Cougar: Of Dreams Long Gone [4.May.10]
The Plimsouls: Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal [28.Apr.10]
Lluís Coloma: Boogie Portraits [14.Apr.10]
Nouvellas: Nouvellas [12.Apr.10]
Zora Young: The French Connection [19.Mar.10]
Samuel James: For Rosa, Maeve and Noreen [3.Mar.10]
Black Diamond Heavies: Alive As Fuck [26.Feb.10]
Various Artists: Sensacional Soul Vol.2 [15.Feb.10]
John Mayall: Tough [9.Feb.10]
Jeff the Brotherhood: Heavy Days [27.Jan.10]
Andrew Hoover: Chances, Stances and Romances [26.Jan.10]
The Lovely Eggs: If You Were Fruit [13.Jan.10]
The Corner Laughers: Ultraviolet Garden [14.Dec.09]
Quintus McCormick Blues Band: Hey Jodie! [24.Nov.09]
Joe Louis Walker: Between a Rock and the Blues [16.Nov.09]
Left Lane Cruiser: All You Can Eat [12.Nov.09]
Eddie C. Campbell: Tear This World Up [9.Oct.09]
Brian Olive: Brian Olive [15.Sep.09]
Candye Kane: Superhero [11.Sep.09]
The Oxygen Ponies: Harmony Handgrenade [17.Aug.09]
The Soundcarriers: Harmonium [30.Jul.09]
Lee Fields and the Expressions: My World [23.Jul.09]
Shawn Lee: Soul in the Hole [22.Jul.09]
Jennie DeVoe: Strange Sunshine [20.Jul.09]
Pisces: A Lovely Sight [16.Jul.09]
Snooks Eaglin: Baby, You Can Get Your Gun! [8.Jul.09]
Paul Jones: Starting All Over Again [10.Jun.09]
Tower of Power: Great American Soulbook [9.Jun.09]
Buckwheat Zydeco: Lay Your Burden Down [29.May.09]
The New Standards: Rock and Roll [13.Apr.09]
The Sir Finks: Tres Mexicanos Del Sur de Texas [19.Mar.09]
Seth Walker: Leap of Faith [3.Mar.09]
Sleepy John Estes: On 80 Highway [25.Feb.09]
The Mojomatics: Don't Pretend That You Know Me [24.Feb.09]
Blue Ash: No More, No Less [20.Feb.09]
Dakota Suite: The End of Trying [11.Feb.09]
David Egan: You Don't Know Your Mind [30.Jan.09]
Shannon McArdle: Summer of the Whore [14.Jan.09]
Hushpuppies: Silence Is Golden [18.Dec.08]
Rain: Rain [1.Dec.08]
Elvin Bishop: The Blues Rolls On [20.Nov.08]
The Points: The Points [12.Nov.08]
Ernie Halter: Starting Over [11.Nov.08]
The Deep Vibration: Veracruz [5.Nov.08]
Brimstone Howl: We Came in Peace [31.Oct.08]
Cornflakes Heroes: Dear Mr Painkillers [30.Oct.08]
Cake Bake Betty: To the Dark Tower [2.Oct.08]
The Cute Lepers: Can't Stand Modern Music [10.Sep.08]
Kelley McRae: Highrises In Brooklyn [9.Sep.08]
Walter: Doin' the Funky Thing [8.Aug.08]
Jade Stone and Luv: Mosaics: Pieces of Stone [15.Jul.08]
Pete Francis: Iron Sea and the Cavalry [3.Jul.08]
The Grip Weeds: Infinite Soul [30.Jun.08]
The Priddle Concern: The Priddle Concern [27.Jun.08]
Amos Lee: Last Days at the Lodge [24.Jun.08]
Porter Block: Off Our Shoulders [24.Jun.08]
Mississippi Heat: Hattiesburg Blues [16.Jun.08]
The BellRays: Hard, Sweet and Sticky [19.May.08]
The Contents Are: Through You [16.May.08]
The Long Blondes: Couples [7.May.08]
Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King: Blood Brothers [28.Apr.08]
Saint Bernadette: I Wanna Tell You Something [2.Apr.08]
Ann Vriend: When We Were Spies [18.Mar.08]
Chatham County Line: IV [5.Mar.08]
The Vandelles: The Vandelles EP [7.Feb.08]
The Satelliters: Where Do We Go? [6.Feb.08]
Slider Pines: Road Avenue Railroad [5.Feb.08]
Dengue Fever: Venus on Earth [16.Jan.08]
Jimmy Reed: Jimmy Reed at Carnegie Hall [16.Jan.08]
Morning Glory: Two Suns Worth [9.Jan.08]
The Trolleyvox: Your Secret Safe/Luzerne [8.Jan.08]
The Shaker Heights: Magna Doors [2.Jan.08]
Josie Cotton: Invasion of the B-Girls [21.Dec.07]
The Gladiators: Studio One Singles [18.Dec.07]
The Details: Draw a Distance. Draw a Border. [14.Dec.07]
Slow Six: Private Times in Public Places [6.Dec.07]
The Pillbugs: Monclovia [4.Dec.07]
Sterling Harrison: South of the Snooty Fox [28.Nov.07]
Blanche: Little Amber Bottles [21.Nov.07]
Corb Lund: Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! [19.Nov.07]
Marmalade Souls: In Stereo [6.Nov.07]
Five O'Clock Heroes: Bend to the Breaks [24.Oct.07]
Deadstring Brothers: Silver Mountain [12.Oct.07]
The Three 4 Tens: Down the Way [1.Oct.07]
Jim Lauderdale: The Bluegrass Diaries [21.Sep.07]
The Sharp Things: A Moveable Feast [18.Sep.07]
Dollar Store: Money Music [24.Aug.07]
The Hedrons: One More Wont Kill Us [12.Jul.07]
Little Aida: Mad Country [26.Jun.07]
Gore Gore Girls: Get the Gore [25.Jun.07]
Patrick Sweany: Every Hour Is a Dollar Gone [20.Jun.07]
Raleigh: The House on Seedling Lane [13.Jun.07]
Mira Mira: Midnight For You [4.Jun.07]
Through the Sparks: Lazarus Beach [31.May.07]
The Hard Lessons: Hard Lessons [23.May.07]
The Dexateens: Hardwire Healing [21.May.07]
Peel: Peel [15.May.07]
Travis Mitchell Band: Forget Whats Wrong [9.May.07]
Captain Yonder: Good-Bye, Woland! [26.Apr.07]
Justine Electra: Soft Rock [23.Apr.07]
Spady Brannan: Spady [17.Apr.07]
Lonesome Travelers: Lonesome Travelers [12.Apr.07]
David Rovics: Halliburton Boardroom Massacre [6.Apr.07]
The Trucks: The Trucks [4.Apr.07]
Valorie Miller: Folk Star [2.Apr.07]
Julie Sokolow: Something About Violins [30.Mar.07]
Wayne Hancock: Tulsa [26.Mar.07]
Crooked Still: Shaken by a Low Sound [19.Mar.07]
Dale Ann Bradley: Catch Tomorrow [16.Mar.07]
The Summer Wardrobe: The Summer Wardrobe [7.Mar.07]
Dan Sartain: Join Dan Sartain [2.Mar.07]
Terry Ohms: Terry Ohms Plays Wes McDonald [27.Feb.07]
San Saba County: Its Not the Fall That Hurts [23.Feb.07]
Fern Knight: Music for Witches and Alchemists [21.Feb.07]
Sunny Sweeney: Heartbreakers Hall of Fame [19.Feb.07]
Memphis the Band: Radio [14.Feb.07]
The Apples in Stereo: New Magnetic Wonder [6.Feb.07]
Bill Kirchen: Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods [24.Jan.07]
Daylights for the Birds: Trouble Everywhere [4.Jan.07]
The Antiques: Nicknames and Natives [2.Jan.07]
The Aquarium: The Aquarium [22.Dec.06]
Caroline Vinciguerra: Bored and Gorgeous [22.Dec.06]
JJ Baron: Brand New Stranger [13.Dec.06]
ActionReaction: 3 Is the Magic Number [6.Dec.06]
John Waite: Downtown Journey of a Heart [5.Oct.06]
Deryl Dodd: Full Circle [15.Sep.06]
Astropop 3: Life [1.Sep.06]
Johnny Dowd: Cruel Words [1.Sep.06]
The Adored: A New Language [14.Jul.06]
