CD Review and Interview Malcolm McKinney’s Seasons of Life I interviewed Malcolm sitting outside Your Big Picture Café (www.YourBigPictureCafe.com) during the two year anniversary celebration of their weekly Saturday open mic. drb: “Okay, so Malcolm, this is the third time I’ve reviewed a CD of yours, the first two being Ghosts of Flagler’s Train and […]

CD Review – 2=2: Los DosAbes Okay, so when does one plus one equal three? When you’re talking about the Two Abes, of course (www.TheTwoAbes.bandcamp.com). Comprised originally of Abe Evans and Grant Abronski, and now with recent addition Taylor Lovejoy, this trio is the best of the next generation of acoustic indie music. Yet, for […]

CD Review – I Can Do This by Chris Kay So this is the second time I’ve reviewed a CD for Chris Kay, and it’s definitely twice as good. His first CD titled Bedroom Demos actually floored me, and I have been eagerly following Chris’ musical career at local open mics like Your Big Picture […]

CD Review – Jesse Jackson by Jessie Jackson Jesse, Jesse, Jesse. What more can I say. Now I ain’t talkin’ about the bible thumping, democratic dangling, rainbow coalition Jesse here. No sir’ee. We’re talkin’ about the Miami maverick, Luna Star Cafe luminary (www.LunaStarCafe.com) , Boston Berklee’ite Jesse Jackson (www.IamJesseJackson.com). And finally, after many years, we […]

CD Review – Bodhisattva: Down On The Dream by Rob Wcislo As I’m sitting here writing my second sunny summer magic pool-side CD review at world renowned Carol Fosters, I’m wondering if a singer/songwriter’s style and compositions are any indication of their record collections. If true, then Rob Wcislo obviously has a special section of […]

CD Review – I’m Only Here For The Music by Lani Nash If Patty Griffin and Garth Brooks had a love child (ante-Robert-Plant, of course), it would have to be Lani Nash (www.LaniNash.com). With the heart and soul of Lucinda Williams (think “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road”), and the timbre and phrasing of Jennifer […]

Music with meaning. Music with power. Music with consequence. That’s what the Syracuse Peace Council’s PeaceSongsCNY (www.peacecouncil.net/songs) is all about. The Syracuse Peace Council was founded in 1936 and is now the oldest antiwar/social justice organization in the United States. Compiling nineteen tracks from eighteen Central New York musicians and one South Florida artist, SPC […]

Which came first, the train or the fool? Well according to anthropologists, fools predated trains by some 200,000 years, give or take a millennia or two. Yet, somehow, far fetched as this dis-tonic duo seems, they do go quite well together, especially when sung about by Paul Wilson (www.soundclick.com/pwmusic1) as on his latest CD aptly […]

If the Beatles and the Perras’ got it right, then All You Need Is Love (1967, Parlophone). And on their latest CD titled We Are The People, Bill and Eli Perras (www.bluesgotus.com) got lotsa love to spare. A thirteen track compilation of both covers and originals, We Are The People is the reason I write […]

Every Eye With Love by Hunter Altschul is available online at: http://hunteraltschul.bandcamp.com/album/every-eye-with-love What makes a Picasso, a Rembrandt, a Cezanne so immediately memorable and identifiable is an undeniable sense of identity, a sameness and singular eye for acuity that is uniquely their own. They draw us into passionate visions of unspoken, and sometimes unspeakable truths […]