For this sixth installment of Ranking Records, we turn to the Country Rock genre and visit the catalog of the band Poco when Richie Furay was a member. One of my all-time favorite bands both live and on record, it was tough to rank these six LPs, but I gave it a shot anyway. Hope […]
Young Kentuckian Tyler Childers became the newest Americana wunderkind to have a sold-out multi-night run at the Ryman. The magic number for Childers was four with a week space between each pair of shows. Yours truly felt quite lucky to have grabbed a great single seat for his headlining Ryman debut. Keeping with the trend, […]
Oh, to be young again! And have musical talent and a creative vision. Well that seems to be the case for the four young Nashvillians who make up the band The Thing With Feathers: Dave Welcsh (vocals and guitar), Sean Carroll (bass), Alex Hendricks (lead guitar) and Chris Roussell (drums). Together since 2017, the band […]
Welcome to the fifth installment of this series. Today, I look at the seven studio albums by Minneapolis band, The Replacements. Nicknamed “The Mats” and known for some notorious live shows early in their career, I will also go through the other recordings by the band that need to be in your collection as well. […]
For many of us, myself included, it’s not an easy thing to keep the brain focused when listening to instrumental music. But the musical notes picked and bowed by Nashville’s Hawktail have an engaging lyrical quality that glides you through each song. This acoustic string quartet is comprised of Brittany Haas on the fiddle, Paul […]
With only four records to rank, our fourth installment also spends some time looking at the history of this great band which featured Dave Edmund, Nick Lowe, Billy Bremner and Terry Williams. One of the best live bands ever to hit the stage, you will also hear about some famous live shows and some other […]
Photo by Anna Haas The beautiful and gentle voice of Americana artist Sarah Peacock seems to serve as a subtle and stark contrast to the message in her music. But as you listen deeper to the songs on her upcoming record, you will hear that she is simply singing with compassion on what she describes […]
In this third installment of this series, I take a walk through the catalog of studio albums by the British band Squeeze. The band of course is led by the prolific work of the talented songwriting duo of Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook. Long one of my favorite all time bands, you can search this […]
I became intrigued when I heard that an old acquaintance of mine, Gibby Haynes, had written his first novel. Afterall, I witnessed the beginnings of Gibby’s publishing career with his self-made ‘zine entitled Strange VD which he produced on the photocopy machine at the office where we both once worked. Following this unusual ode to […]
Last week, I made my first attempt at this video exercise with the music of Elvis Costello. From what I’ve heard, most of you liked it. I personally loved the feedback that rearranged rankings and disagreed with some of the records I put near the bottom. All in all, it was too much fun for […]
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