Donovan Woods — The EP After
After last years excellent Hard Settle, Ain't Troubled album. After working on not-quite-there songs which are too good to shelf. After proving himself a songwriter of worth — in my review of Hard Settle, I called him “top-percentile” because I did not want to go over the top, but
When Lucian Truscott Comes to Your Bob Dylan Class
Lucian King Truscott IV is, to quote Liz Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story (1940), no homespun tag. Its bearer has a long American heritage on both sides of his family: grandfather Lucian Truscott Jr. was a highly decorated World War II general; and grandmother Sarah Randolph was Thomas Jefferson'
Bombadil Transcends Barriers
If less is more, then it can easily be said that Bombadil’s latest offering, Fences, provides an abundance of musical wealth with an economy of means. Utilizing a small group of instruments - guitar, piano, upright bass, smatterings of percussion and electronic sounds - and combining them with vocal
Colin Hay Delivers His Best Effort Yet
It's been more than 30 years since the breakup of Men at Work, the band that brought Colin Hay global fame and a formidable number of hits. Their quirky new wave panache and goofy MTV videos aside, it was Hay’s spunky vocals that informed the core of
The Curtis Mayflower--- The Ship Is In
A few years ago, the Curtis Mayflower put out an album titled Everything Beautiful Is Under Attack and I found it intriguing (and damn good)--- enough to have written this:
“Who are The Curtis Mayflower? I first heard of them through No Small Children, a trio of lady musicians
John McCutcheon Releases A Folk Masterpiece
It’s been a long time since I considered an album a folk masterpiece, but I must give that distinction to John McCutcheon’s new Trolling for Dreams.
The album — the 38th in McCutcheon’s prolific career — overflows with great songs, warm and lively vocals and masterful playing. McCutcheon, a