All Blog Posts Tagged 'Davy' (80)

"The Bisciuts and Gravy Tour Bus"

Me,  Cousti and Rob Ellen on our way 

to our House Concert,…

www.katylied.com

www.facebook.com/KatyLiedBand

Absolutely nothing to do with Steely Dan, Katy Lied are an English rock band with an American heart and on this, their third…

www.goodlovelies.com

More fine music from Canada; the Good Lovelies are three young women from Toronto who discovered a little while ago that their voices made a great fit. In just five years together their career has snowballed to take in nationwide tours, forays down into the US and now…

 www.rebeccapronsky.com

If you're any sort of a country music fan, the opening bars of Viewfinder will have you drooling with pleasure. As a great big twanging guitar picks out a melody line against a cantering rhythm, Rebecca's strong vocal cuts in, warm with vibrato and cool with authority.  It sounds kind of like Natalie Merchant singing Ghost Riders in the Sky…

www.larkinpoe.com

It makes me feel fickle: no sooner have I nominated Carrie Elkin's new album as my favourite of the year so far, than along comes Larkin Poe to blow me away completely. Larkin Poe are Rebecca and Megan Lovell, the two thirds of The Lovell Sisters left after…

www.reverbnation.com/davidlatto

          David Latto comes from Fife but I think his heart is somewhere in the wide open spaces of the American West. He played in a band for a long while but is currently re-orientating his musical career to answer the call of his cowboy heart and this four track cd is…

www.kingkingblues.com

Alan Nimmo and his brother Stevie, as The Nimmo Brothers, have been strong fixtures on the British blues scene for a decade or so but they both seem to have felt it was time to spread their wings a bit. So, whilst brother Stevie headed off to Texas to record a…

www.adroitrecords.com

Adroit Records is a new venture by Nashville producer Jim Tract which seeks to celebrate the folk who write the songs that give the stars their hits. I'm not too sure about tacking the Americana label onto this collection but I guess folk don't take that tag too seriously…

www.jefftalmadge.com    

About eleven months ago I posted a "catch-up" review, still available on this blog, of Jeff Talmadge's previous two albums and mentioned that there was a new one in the pipeline. Well, here it is,  and pretty much everything that I wrote last time round applies to this new work.  Jeff is a Texan…

http://www.billycrain.com 

Billy Crain has been playing southern rock pretty much since it was invented and is currently playing guitar for The Outlaws. Being a Nashville native, however, he has one foot in the country camp and in recent years he developed a career as a country/pop songwriter. In all that three decades or so though, he hadn't ever released a solo album so…

www.lynnehanson.com

Third album in for Ottawa's Lynne Hanson and from the first bars of the first song, you know you're in for something good here. Produced in Toronto by multi instrumentalist David Baxter, my initial reaction to the sound that he's created was that it was a very good recreation of the sound that Malcolm Burn has made for Emmylou Harris in recent years. It's…

www.markwynn.com 

www.bosscaine.com

Two young-ish country and blues-influenced musicians from York (England) Mark Wynn and Boss Caine  have made the unusual move of contributing half an hour or so of material each to a joint cd and I guess there's…

 www.musical1.com/Sandy_Wright

Sandy Wright hails from Edinburgh and is in his sixties now; this double album from Navigator Records is an attempt to give due status to a man whose songwriting has acquired a host of admirers in the folk world over the last twenty years ; given the amount of…

www.drewnelson.net

   This cd, available through Drew's website I believe, is one heck of a coup for modern technology and for Rob Ellen's Medicine Show. As recorded on Rob's little machine (was it hanging from a coat peg?) the quality is plenty good enough - a…

www.reverbnation.com/theskunnered

The Skunnered are four guys from Glasgow playing their own unique blend of easy rocking country and Scots folk song, with a dollop of Glasgow street song in there for good measure and all sung in their native accent. There's a wry humour at work in the very construction of…

www.jakemorley.com

Londoner Jake Morley is a one-off, making sounds and writing songs that sound like no-one else I've ever heard. If it wasn't pretty much an acoustic album I would characterise "Many Fish To Fry" as a pop album: this is bright, sparkly music, easy to engage with and…

www.jp-den-tex.com      

That'll be JP "The Texan" as this boy hails from Amsterdam. I say "boy", but, coyly disguising his age with a woolly hat though he does, JP must be in his fifties if he's a day. It's a long musical career that's led to this point, playing several…

www.bobreamusic.com

 Bob Rea hails from Durango, Colorado and has spent his life stumbling amongst the foothills of The American Dream; he's worked at several sorts of job, fallen foul of the law, struggled to raise his family and somehow survived it all with enough self-respect intact to be able to document this kind of life in song. There are hordes of people…

www.lukedoucet.com

 Genre Warning: Rock music alert!

     I had to say that because I'm not sure if this is FSR territory really, but heck, it's a great record.  This is Luke Doucet's sixth 'solo' album in the last decade but his regular supporting cast get feature billing as The White Falcon in recognition of the co-operative effort that…

www.adam-klein.com

Imagine a collection of songs with strong pop hooks that have their roots - in equal measure - in The Beatles, Whiskeytown and Son Volt and you'll have some idea of what this really classy set from Georgia's Adam Klein sounds like. OK, it's difficult, I know, but it's all there on…