Julie Dougherty shines on new CD In This Place; roots approach works well for veteran singer-songwriter
Julie Dougherty’s In This Place CD finds the artist exploring her rootsie side more deeply than ever. Lap steel guitar along with some mandola and a touch of dobro augment Dougherty’s insightful, life experience based singer-songwriter fair with hearty, gritty naturalness. The fit is perfect. Dougherty has always honed the natural beauty of her voice […]
Laura Cortese bows with passion, writes poetically on Into The Dark
Laura Cortese’s debut full length CD Into The Dark displays much of the artist’s tremendous versatility and technique on vocals and violin. More importantly, Cortese uses her skills and talents to fill out the wondrous colors and tones around the even higher talent of her songwriting. Buttressing her stories and themes with just the right […]
Delta Generators ride well on Get On The Horse
Delta Generators have just released their third modern blues album, Get On The Horse, and it’s every bit as feisty, gritty, greasy, and driving as their previous two. The boys have expanded their sound but are just as every bit enthusiastic to bring their aggressive take on delta blues to the masses. Mixed by producer […]
Roomful Of Blues outdo themselves on 45 Live
Roomful Of Blues have finally gotten around to making another live album, their third, and 45 Live was certainly worth the wait. Singer Philip Pemberton is the most perfect match for this band at it current incarnation and his three years with the band has given him plenty of time to sharp his voice among […]
Barrence Whitfield And The Savages command thee to Dig Thy Savage Soul CD
Barrence Whitfield And The Savages have been around for a long time, and they’re still kicking out their feisty marriage of rockabilly and punk. On their latest CD, Dig Thy Savage Soul, Whitfield and his crew finesses their rock and roll, R&B, and soul influences into their already dynamite mix of hard-charging music. Tight musicianship […]
Daphne Lee Martin dazzles with her arrangements on Moxie
Daphne Lee Martin’s latest CD Moxie is ten tracks of original music heavily influenced by the great blues, jazz, and Broadway vocalists of the early 20th century. That this music is so refreshingly modern at the same time is a testament to Martin’s talents as a songwriter and as an interpreter of her own material. […]
Run Gazelle Run rock out with unique edge
Run Gazelle Run are a hard act to define. Their blend of electric-acoustic, singer-songwriter, progressive rock has been well documented on their self-titled debut album. Run Gazelle Run recorded their debut at The New England Institute Of Art recording studio in Brookline, Massachusetts. It is fortunate the band found such support because what they have […]
MC3 strike gold in their own way on A Half Bubble Off Plumb
MC3’s first CD under their new band name(MC4 now that drummer-percussion “Goss” has joined) is appropriately titled A Half Bubble Off Plumb. Appropriate because everything about their music is so different than anything else out there on the Boston scene that it would have been weird if they didn’t have an eccentric album title. The […]
Woodford Way are onto something special with There & Back CD
Woodford Way have released their first full length album as a full band. There & Back offers ten tracks of mellow electric-acoustic guitar driven songs that combine the best of singer-songwriter material with solid, full band musicianship. Singer-songwriter Kyle Mangini sings with the smoothest male timbre this side of the Mississippi. Mangini has a masterful […]
Sarah Borrello off to a great start with Exit CD
Sarah Borrello’s debut CD Exit is loaded with edgy rockers based on influences like Tori Amos, Alanis Morisette and Fiona Apple. Whatever tempo she employs for a song, Borrello sings everything with an urgency that cannot be denied. She has something to get off her chest, and she uses that intensity to create sparks. Aside […]
