review Archive
20 Nov 2021
Album Review: The Black Watch — Here & There
If their music wasn’t so good, I’d almost be a bit annoyed by The Black Watch. John Andrew Fredrick barely gives lovers of his fine, evocative, atmospheric and highly tuneful […]
19 Nov 2021
Album Review: James Booker — True: Live at Tipitina’s, April 25, 1978
Though he passed at age 43, New Orleans pianist James Booker earned quite a reputation during his lifetime. The self-anointed Piano Prince of New Orleans had his own brand of […]
18 Nov 2021
Album Review: Bill Lloyd — Working the Long Game
While it’s true that Bill Lloyd first came to prominence as half of the c&w duo Foster and Lloyd – an outfit that did some fine work in that genre […]
17 Nov 2021
Album Review: Various Artists – Sacred Soul of North Carolina
The culmination of a sequence of events put in motion by two music business leaders, Sacred Soul of North Carolina is an audio document of the current state of a […]
16 Nov 2021
Album Review: Jethro Tull – A (La Mode: The 40th Anniversary Edition)
Led by Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull was among the most popular of so-called progressive rock groups of the 1970s. Its distinctive combination of British folk and hard rock textures scored […]
14 Nov 2021
Album Review: Trifecta — Fragments
Here’s an easy trivia question for you: What do Craig Blundell, Adam Holzman asnd Nick Beggs have in common? It’s really a trick question, because the judges will allow any […]
13 Nov 2021
Album Review: The Weeklings — In Their Own Write
Had The Weeklings never done anything beyond the perfect Beatles pastiche of “Little Tease,” they wold be worthy of note and praise. But they have done more, and its all […]
12 Nov 2021
Album Review: Møtrik — Moon: The Cosmic Electrics of Møtrik
Acknowledging that krautrock is in fact little more than a catch-all term for a wide variety of styles that come (primarily) out of very late ‘60s to mid ‘70s West […]
09 Nov 2021
Album Review: Ram On – The 50th Anniversary Tribute to Paul and Linda McCartney’s ‘Ram’
If you read Musoscribe with anything approaching regularity (and sincere thanks if you do), the name Fernando Perdomo will be a familiar one. An in-demand multifarious session player, he also […]
08 Nov 2021
Album Review: Wesley Stace — Late Style
For most of his professional career Wesley Stace has worked using the stage name/sobriquet John Wesley Harding. The singer-songwriter’s love (and command) of wordplay is second to none; leave it […]