R.I. honky tonk queen Joanne Lurgio graces on Nothing Remains The Same CD
Joanne Lurgio sings and plays a heartfelt collection of honky tonk roots tunes on her latest CD Nothing Remains The Same. Lurgio not only has a beautifully strong voice to display. She is a crafty songwriter with a knack for keeping country roots music fun while also stepping out into classy, meaning of life ballads […]
Gil Correia Band score big on debut CD Tattoos & Blues
Gil Correia Band’s debut CD Tattoos And Blues is loaded with the particular brand of punchy, driving blues-rock Correia and his boys are known for. It doesn’t hurt that Correia’s hard scrabble life gives him a bit of tough guy confidence while filling these numbers with soulful verisimilitude. His rough Massachusetts accent fits right in […]
Tester rock out on new CD King Of The World
Tester recently released their King Of The World CD, and it certainly rocks out in a range somewhere between metal and 1970s hard rock. This music niche works for Tester. Their sound is huge, strong, and rocking yet always accessible. Opening track “Look What You’ve Done” gives the sledgehammer pounding rhythm section, dizzying, speedy guitars, […]
Patti DeRosa emotes with style on new live CD Packing My Bags
Singer-songwriter Patti DeRosa has released “Packing My Bags,” a lively and lovely document of her live performances. DeRosa has named this live disc after its opening track. As a musician, DeRosa is always packing her bags to play gigs. Traveling informs much of DeRosa’s songwriting, and so this packing bags theme works on numerous levels. […]
This Blue Heaven shine on new CD QuickSandGlass
This Blue Heaven is a keyboard driven pop-rock band with a girl singer and sprightly melodies. On this debut CD QuickSandGlass, the quintet, who don’t sound like anybody else, offer up plenty of pleasant ditties. Vocalist MacKenzie Outlund’s pretty voice has an ethereal quality that sounds like she is floating just above the band. She […]
Wild Bill Gleason & Chris Fury Rodis rock the roots of Americana music on Good Groove CD
Wild Bill Gleason and Chris Fury Rodis assembled an all star cast of local blues players to record their dream album Good Groove: American Roots Music. Good Groove is a tribute to some of the great American roots music from the mid-20th century. All of these tracks are rendered with true feeling and grateful appreciation […]
Beyond Blonde offers more rootsie sophistication on Showing My Roots CD
This new Beyond Blonde CD Showing My Roots is a collection of punchy songs that pack the aggression of modern rock into a roots feeling and sound. The rootsie, folkie thing is in the lead singer’s vocal and acoustic guitar approach and in the bands tight arrangements. Showing My Roots opens with a steady, folkie […]
Starr Faithfull releases hard rock masterpiece with Delusions Of Grandeur
Starr Faithfull’s third CD Delusions Of Grandeur is a hard rock masterpiece. Many fine nuances get layered around one another with tasteful applications of the talent in this trio. Starr Faithfull also keeps it fresher and more current than ever. Influences show up here and there but Delusions Of Grandeur is their own sound. After […]
Jon McAuliffe pleases ear and soul with In This Present Form CD
Jon McAuliffe has found communality among Americana roots music, and he infuses the songs on his new CD with plenty of spiritual ebullience. In This Present Form offers plenty of thoughtful lyrics and pretty melodies. McAuliffe is a reflective, progressive minded man with serious spiritual beliefs. Songs like “I Am The Stone” and “Jack Jack” […]
Professor Harp bares his soul on debut CD They Call Me The Professor
Professor Harp’s debut CD introduces the veteran Boston singer-harmonica player with its cool title, They Call Me The Professor. And “professor” is a title Hugh Holmes has earned. Muddy Waters, during a Boston gig, called Holmes “the professional of the harp” and Solomon Burke, when he too was in town, called Holmes Professor Harmonica. With […]
