Premiere: Ally Venable has a Heart Of Fire
Covid-19 hasn’t silenced Texas’s favorite new gunslinger, Ally Venable. Venable’s idea of “spreading a positive message of the love,” as she describes her latest release, is to round up her … Read more
Posted in February, 2021
Saugeye
Go ahead and call Saugeye “old fashioned.” Rather than take offense, the Tulsa-based cooperative, led by soulful singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and hobbyist fisherman Jared Tyler, would almost certainly see it as … Read more
A.J. Croce
A.J. Croce is serious about music. In addition to demanding of himself the highest level of proficiency on keyboards and guitar, he’s a student of music history, with a wide … Read more
Premiere: Drinks are on The Barlow at the Horseshoe Lounge
If you think country music is all twang, cryin’ and beer, think again. Straddling the line between classic and modern country, The Barlow’s carefully-crafted songs should attract music fans from … Read more
I’m Too Old for this Sh*t
Heavy metal sits one step below nonstop Polka music in my “favorites” list, and a traditional documentary about a dissolved local Florida band sounds like a world-class yawn, but I’m … Read more
Uncle Walt’s Band
Synchronicity. Walter Hyatt and I shared it in buckets during the decade we knew each other, and it still gently turns up a quarter of a century after he “left … Read more
Karen Matheson
Still Time is an absolute delight, a truly superb, eleven-track release that is nothing short of sublime. Matheson is best known for her voice as singer with a leading Scottish … Read more
