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Dawn Thomson: Happenstance
by Jack Bowers
This is the second disc I’ve reviewed by Dawn Thomson, a guitarist/vocalist from Canada who relocated to New York City about six years ago, and I could probably stop right here and repeat the other one verbatim. In other words, not much has changed. She is still, as we pointed out then, “a capable mainstream guitarist ...
Jon Ballantyne: Known/Unknown
by AAJ Staff
Jon Ballantyne is thick. You hear great rumbles of piano, fingers darting to hit distant notes, somehow laid-back and intense at the same time. It’s an edgy sound, similar to some but copying none. It’s hard to describe, but the album title does it as well as anything. “No Blues” is the title, but Jon’s version ...
Dawn Thomson: Happenstance
by AAJ Staff
Front cover shows Dawn Thomson, guitar at the ready, out in the country somewhere. The back cover has Dawn (guitar still at the ready) near a store in The Big City, sitting down as a stranger walks by. This album, mostly originals, marks her five-year anniversary in New York and the happenstance of her being there. ...