Author: Kevin Bryan

Album Review: Kathy Mattea – Pretty Bird
December 27, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Kathy Mattea – Pretty Bird

Kathy Mattea, “Pretty Bird” (Thirty Tigers)-  Kathy Mattea has been inactive on the recording front since the release of 2012’s bluegrass orientated “Calling Me Home,” but the West Virginia born country singer has now returned to the fray in rejuvenated...
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Album Review: Chet Baker – My Time With Chet
December 27, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Chet Baker – My Time With Chet

Chet Baker, “My Time With Chet” (Sleepy Night Records)-This affecting anthology draws on recordings made at various venues around the world by record producer and Chet Baker devotee Ernie Garside during the latter stages of the Jazz vocalist and tr...
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Album Review: Asleep at the Wheel – New Routes
December 24, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Asleep at the Wheel – New Routes

Asleep at the Wheel, “New Routes” (Thirty Tigers)-The various incarnations of Asleep at the Wheel  have been plying their trade for almost half a century now , blending country, jazz,rockabilly and western swing  elements in near perfect proporti...
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Album Review: Nemanja Radulovic – Baika
December 13, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Nemanja Radulovic – Baika

Nemanja Radulovic, “Baika” (Deutsche Grammophon)-The latest vehicle for the talents of flambuoyant young Serbian violinist Nemanja Radulovic finds the former child prodigy applying his expressive instrumental technique to such richly evocative comp...
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Album Review: Van Morrison – The Prophet Speaks
December 10, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Van Morrison – The Prophet Speaks

Van Morrison, “The Prophet Speaks” (Caroline International)- Many of Van’s  direct contemporaries from the golden age of rock and pop in the late sixties and early seventies may have fallen by the wayside over the years as time has taken...
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Album Review: Willard Grant Conspiracy – ‘Untethered’
November 29, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Willard Grant Conspiracy – ‘Untethered’

Willard Grant Conspiracy, “Untethered” (Loose)- “Untethered” is the tenth and final studio album from the excellent Willard Grant Conspiracy, recorded in the months before cancer claimed the life of their frontman and creative mainstay ...
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Album Review: Mumford & Sons – ‘Delta’
November 29, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Mumford & Sons – ‘Delta’

Mumford & Sons, “Delta” (Island Records)- The Mumfords’ early output had an infectious folksy charm which may have enraged the purists but did prove hugely successful in terms of solid record sales , bringing the band chart-topping album...
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Album Review: Blancmange – ‘Wanderlust’
November 15, 2018 one Response

Album Review: Blancmange – ‘Wanderlust’

Blancmange, “Wanderlust” (Blanc Check Records)-Founder member Neil Arthur has striven manfully to keep the Blancmange name alive since illness forced his long term creative partner Stephen Luscombe to give up the ghost in 2011, and “Wanderlus...
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Album Review: Elvis Costello & The Imposters – ‘Look Now’
November 15, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Elvis Costello & The Imposters – ‘Look Now’

Elvis Costello & The Imposters, “Look Now” (Concord)- Elvis Costello should be applauded for continuing to deliver his finely crafted brand of baroque chamber-pop at a time when most of his contemporaries from the late seventies have long sinc...
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Album Review: Vargas Blues Band – King of Latin Blues
November 9, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Vargas Blues Band – King of Latin Blues

Vargas Blues Band, “King of Latin Blues” (Warner Music Spain)- Spanish bluesman Javier Vargas is a close friend and musical sparring partner of the great Carlos Santana, and the similarities between the two guitarists’ approach to music-makin...
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