Reviews
Wednesday, June 9 2010
The Watson Twins: Talking to You, Talking to Me
The sisters have turned in an album that is placid and appealing, though completely disposable.
Thursday, May 20 2010
Leslie and the Badgers: Roomful Of Smoke
Pleasant but ultimately interchangeable.
Monday, April 26 2010
Mary Chapin Carpenter: The Age of Miracles
Comprised of Carpenter’s typical album structure of uptempo numbers and mournful ballads, Age is classic MCC: sober, insightful, whimsical, and beautiful.
Tuesday, April 6 2010
Gary Allan: Get Off on the Pain
This is contender for year’s end best of country list, insightful and rare look into a singer’s psyche, and a collection of top-grade country music or soulful purging.
Thursday, February 25 2010
Allison Moorer: Crows
Moody, sensual, bleak and at times, even pious, Moorer’s latest album never commits to either side of being tragically beautiful or beautifully tragic.
Chip Taylor: Yonkers NY [4.Feb.10]
Dawes: North Hills [29.Jan.10]
Ellis Paul: The Day After Everything Changed [15.Jan.10]
Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard: One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Music From Kerouac's Big Sur [25.Nov.09]
John Cowan: 8745 Feet Live at Telluride [24.Nov.09]
The Band of Heathens: One Foot in the Ether [19.Nov.09]
Kate Miller-Heidke: Curiouser [11.Nov.09]
Chuck Prophet: Let Freedom Ring [29.Oct.09]
Eva & The Heartmaker: Let's Keep This Up Forever [28.Oct.09]
Orenda Fink: Ask the Night [9.Oct.09]
Bryan Sutton: Almost Live [18.Sep.09]
Radney Foster and the Confessions: Revival [11.Sep.09]
Demi Lovato: Here We Go Again [10.Sep.09]
Julian Plenti: Julian Plenti Is… Skyscraper [24.Aug.09]
