MUSIC 
Ray Wylie Hubbard: The Grifter’s Hymnal(0)
Ray Wylie Hubbard The Grifter’s Hymnal (Bordello) Rating: Veteran Americana swamp rockers don’t get any more grizzled or authentic than Hubbard. His 16th release is a beautifully realized and appropriately ragged work that combines his bluesy country rocking and gritty vocals with a “strip bar dirty” sound that can only be made by someone who [...]
Andre Williams & The Sadies Night and Day
Andre Williams & The Sadies Night and Day (Yep Roc) Rating: Searching for wholesome, PC approved, feel good music to make your Sunday morning more relaxing? Better look elsewhere ‘cause the 70 year old Williams gruffly talking trash through these Sadies and Jon Spencer backed country, hillbilly, blues rock and psychedelic garage tracks won’t sit [...]
Who’s Been Talkin’? A Q&A With Joe Bonamassa
Joe Bonamassa is among our greatest living guitar players. And you may not know who he is. Such is the peril of the blues. The difference in units sold between the No. 1 album on the pop charts vs. the blues charts can be in the hundreds of thousands. As a blues mainstay, five of [...]
Guest Blog: Paul Thorn
Paul Thorn’s latest and most excellent album What the Hell is Goin’ On is a tribute to the musicians who’ve inspired him. Comprising of twelve covers, the new disc finds the Americana artist and former boxer interpreting everyone from blues great Elvin Bishop to British classic rockers Free. In this special guest blog, Thorn expounds [...]
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