By Bill Copeland on April 24, 2013
Bees Deluxe are following an important tradition as recording artists by releasing a live concert album. The album is called livevil, which could be pronounced live evil or live-ville. The point is that it is a live album that captures Bees Deluxe in their hard-hitting, jamming blues glory. The trio of guitarist Conrad Warre, keyboardist [...]
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By Bill Copeland on April 21, 2013
Emboldened by their three previous successes, Jo Henley have come up with a fine, smooth collection of 12 tracks that move with a seamless energy. Pleasant earthy roots music shine under the command of this three piece band and their guest players. Jo Henley is essentially lead singer and rhythm guitarist Andy Campolieto, lead guitarist, [...]
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By Bill Copeland on April 3, 2013
Jeff Root is a beautifully strange rock and roll singer-songwriter. On his latest CD, The Wild Fandango, the metro-west recording artist mixes numerous styles not usually combined to come up with fun, enjoyable pop rock songs. Like a film score composer, Root creates an entire mood and setting. He also likes to tell odd tales [...]
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By Bill Copeland on March 31, 2013
Don Campbell has named his double disc album tribute to Dan Fogelberg Kites To Fly Celebrating The Music Of Dan Fogelberg. Campbell has said that these treasured songs were like kites he had to fly, things to be put up there and given space to breathe and fly. Kites To Fly allows the Maine singer-songwriter [...]
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By Bill Copeland on March 27, 2013
Bird Mancini has found a new focus on bossa nova and other music from Brazil. The pair have always had an interest, but this time around they’ve gathered everything they’ve worked in on that genre and dedicated an album to it. Hence, Bird Mancini Lounge, a collection of jazzy, breezy songs with a distinctly South [...]
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By Bill Copeland on March 25, 2013
James Straight And The Wide Stance have just released this killer album of raw, punk, vintage rock and roll. No Loitering is sure to raise the group’s visibility even further on the Boston music scene. The band opens with the elastic guitar phrased “Female Trouble” by John Waters from Waters’ dark 1974 comedy of the [...]
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By Bill Copeland on March 15, 2013
The Naked Stills released their debut CD Cochecho late last year, and it’s an impressive amalgam of classic rock, blues, and folk born in the 1960s American music renaissance. There is a breezy, wide-ranging sense of expression in the vocals and instrumentation in all 12 tracks. There is also a much needed freshness in this [...]
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By Bill Copeland on March 6, 2013
A gentle rhythmic pattern begins the new Sun Jones album Sure As The Moon. From there, the multi-layered textures of groove, guitars, keyboards, and horns continue on their adventurous paths, some bright, shiny, and gentle, others, louder, blaring, and frenetic. There’s a lot going on with the multiple instruments in each song, and the arrangement [...]
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By Bill Copeland on March 2, 2013
Ten Foot Polecats latest album Undertow serves up more of their blues drenched sound that they squeeze out of their basic trio of vocalist-harmonica player Jay Scheffier, guitarist Jim Chilson, and drummer Chad Rousseau. Distilling blues down to its essence with only three instruments and a voice, Ten Foot Polecats come up with something more [...]
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By Bill Copeland on February 26, 2013
Schooltree’s latest album Rise is a lively, festive blend of pop-rock styles, alternative, and maybe a touch of show tune sprightliness. Lead by the singer-keyboardist Lainey Schooltree, this four piece band rocks, bops, and traipses its way through nine pieces of ear candy. Schooltree’s vast musical imagination allows her to compose some of the most [...]
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