Paul Thorn: What the Hell is Goin On? Balancing the Sacred, Sinful and Soulful With Skill & Passion By Terry Paul Roland, Staff Writer On What the Hell is Goin’ On,’ blue-eyed Soul singer, Paul Thorn, pretty much knows what’s going on with this latest outing. It is a warm-embrace for some of best and [...]
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The White Buffalo Roams Home
The White Buffalo Roams Home Concert Review: The White Buffalo at the Troubadour By Gerry Gomez, Staff Writer Photography By Nelson Blanton When Jake Smith took the stage with his band The White Buffalo on Thursday evening at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, he did so like a man stepping into his destiny as a [...]
Review: David Olney “The Stone”
David Olney: The Stone By Gerry Gomez, Staff Writer The Stone, by literary songwriter, David Olney, is his attempt to tell the story of Easter from varying points of view. It poses some questions as his version of the story gets painted through the eyes of several characters: a con man, a donkey, a murderer [...]
Review: Kathleen Edwards “Voyageur”
Kathleen Edwards: Voyageur By Gerry Gomez Staff Writer The best roots songs are so good because of the great stories that drive them. Kathleen Edwards has been writing such songs for years and has been performing them in her own rootsy way. She’s rightfully earned a place on the short list of top ladies in [...]
Review: I See Hawks in L.A. “New Kind of Lonely”
“Spirit of Death” by I See Hawks in L.A. I See Hawks In L.A. New Kind of Lonely By Gerry Gomez, Staff Writer Los Angeles’ reigning kings of Cosmic American Canyon Country Rock must be easing into a comfy chair atop a shag carpet right about now, enjoying a smoke and a toke [...]
Review: Gene Watson “Best of the Best”
Gene Watson Best of the Best: 25 Greatest Hits (Fourteen Carat Music) Gene Watson may not be a songwriter, but he sure can tell a story. One of Country music’s premier vocalists, Best of the Best finds Watson re-examining 25 of his most popular tunes with a freshness and energy that proves not only that [...]
Review: Scott H. Biram “Bad Ingredients”
Scott H. Biram: Bad Ingredients By John G. Larson, Contributing Writer Get ready for a frenetic adventure of highly original tunes as Scott H. Biram soars on Bad Ingredients, his seventh full length album (and fourth release on Bloodshot Records). With one foot firmly planted in the Muddy Waters school of plaintive delivery, Biram somehow [...]
Review: This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark
This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark Various Artists There’s a reason Guy Clark felt confident in staying out of this one. When it comes to tribute albums, Tamara Saviano knows what she’s doing. The Grammy winning producer of 2004’s Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster, proves yet again that she’s [...]
Wilco Get Raunchy @ The Hollywood Palladium, LA 1/24/12
Wilco Get Raunchy Review of Jan 24 Hollywood Palladium Show By Gerry Gomez, Staff Writer Wilco front-man, Jeff Tweedy asked three or four times how everyone was doing and tried inciting the Palladium crowd on Tuesday evening, as the band stormed through a high energy set which included a selection of songs from their whole [...]
Review: Scotty Alan “Wreck and The Mess”
Scotty Alan Wreck and the Mess By Gerry Gomez Contributing Writer For those who like the Paul Westerberg, Neil Young, Waterboys vein of well-written, heart-felt songs of the human condition from joy to sorrow with the sound drawn from a punk, visceral, no-nonesense approach performed with some heavyweights in the genre, then Scotty Alan’s, [...]
