Tag Archives: country rock

MATTHEWS SOUTHERN COMFORT – Kind Of New / Kind Of Live

May 2, 2013

Genepool 2010 / Esoteric 2012 A folk scene stalwart gets back to the garden but hits some cobwebs on the way. Looks like the loneliness can get to every singer-songwriter, even the one as experimental in his approach as Iain … Continue reading →

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SNAFU – Situation Normal

April 30, 2013

Capitol 1974 / Angel Air 2013 With funk smoothed to the country blues, greasy rolling becomes too comfortable and the energy tamed. SNAFU’s made good on the foul part of the band’s titular acronym, its follow-up takes much of the … Continue reading →

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IAN MATTHEWS – Tigers Will Survive

April 16, 2013

Vertigo 1972 / Esoteric 2012 Country discomfort for a quiet singer-songwriter twists the sinews of the heart. Described as a difficult by the artist himself, the follow-up to , laid down in two session runs with an American tour in … Continue reading →

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JOHN WHEELER – Un-American Gothic

April 15, 2013

Cooking Vinyl 2013 Barley Scotch opts for a so(m)ber outlook – with a HAYSEED DIXIE kind of merriment in the back seat. For all the straight-faced allusion to a Grant Wood’s painting, how un-American can be a reading of THE … Continue reading →

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SNAFU – Snafu

April 7, 2013

Capitol 1973 / Angel Air 2013 Hot ‘n’ nasty: stalwarts of British blues scene get down to dirty, if sweet, business. When Bobby Harrison decided to chop the sticks he’d put to good use in and FREEDOM, he was confident … Continue reading →

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