Singer-songwriter Linda Marks achieves greater heights on The Piano
Linda Marks offers her best CD yet with The Piano. While Marks’s previous discs were pleasantly breezy, unwieldy in a good way, her song craft sharpens here, becomes more structured with a plentitude of snappy instrumental parts, lilting vocals, and a considerate layering of voice, piano, and many other instruments. Additionally, Marks offers all originals […]
Sado Domestics do things their own special way on Hey, Oaxaca
Boston- based Sado Domestics have a new CD called Hey, Oaxaca, and it thrives and flourishes on the strength of a number nice touches, interesting contrasts, and some fine harmony. Opening track “Across” delivers an old-fashioned, jaunty folk feel in its brisk chord progression and in its lilting groove. Chris Gleason and Lucy Martinez follow […]
Barbara Cassidy Band shine like a star on A Winter Frame Of Mind
Released this month, Barbara Cassidy Band serve up a tasteful eight song post card with A Winter Frame Of Mind. Heading toward the cold season, this collection is arriving right on time. With a knack for nailing down traditional folk and Celtic idioms, Cassidy and her friends have come up with a dandy to return […]
Lisa Bastoni uses subtle grace to achieve grand feeling on How We Want To Live
Lisa Bastoni’s latest CD How We Want To Live is a study on how to say a lot by keeping a message direct and simple. It is also a study in how to make a listener feel a lot about a song without having a lot of busy instruments or rippling notes. Rather, Bastoni, a […]
