Category: CD Reviews

The bluegrass quintet known as the Blueridge Mountain Bluegrass Band are back with a newly released album consisting of fourteen Christmas covers/arrangements to keep country listeners feeling festive over the holidays.

… this release garnered him an Academy of Western Artists Award for Pure Country Artist of the Year & Song of the Year nominations.

Billy Adams became well known in the United States through many of his singles in the rockabilly scene in the 1950s and early 1960s. He was a musical contemporary of Bill Yates with whom he recorded some songs. On this CD we find a compilation from this era, some of which have never been published before.

Teea Goans is a neo traditionalist. If you have no idea what that means don’t feel bad. It is just another term in the music industry meant to pigeon hole and categorize music artists into tiny little niches so they can market or not market them depending on what is currently in favor with the establishment at any given time.

Ben Reel and his band performed in 2013 at the once iconic blues and jazz venue JJ Smyths situated in Dublin, Ireland. It has now sadly closed its doors in recent years and Ben made the most of the lockdown period by spending a large part of his spare time mixing a live album from the JJ Smyths venue.

The meaning behind the song, and the album in general, is about valuing those who are there through the darkest times that life can throw in our direction. The album relevant to the festive season and will no doubt keep its audience warm for many Christmases and winters to come as it brings a much-needed sense of unity and peace at a challenging time.

I love it when I hear an artist’s song that makes me want to dig deeper into what they are about.  Lakeview is this kind of artist, a need-to-hear duo comprised of Jesse Denaro and Luke Healy who hail from Pittsburgh and made the move to Nashville.

JT is a Baton Rouge native who has decided to chase the dream in Nashville and been touring the country on self-supported tours for the last few years.