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Mike Mizwinski: Sometimes By Surprise

Read "Sometimes By Surprise" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
October 18, 2025

The 53-plus minutes of deep introspection rendered tangible in a baker's dozen tracks by Mike Mizwinski and company transcends its most overt influences. In fact, the clear-cut echoes of Bob Dylan's “Tangled Up In Blue" on this opener, “Out at the Lake" pique the curiosity to hear more, if only to take note of the esteemed company in which 'Miz' made this record. Recorded live to two-inch tape at The Studio Nashville in May and June of 2024, ...

Album Review

Mike Mizwinski: A Year Ago Today

Read "A Year Ago Today" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
March 18, 2018

There's a photo of Mike Mizwinski on his website populated with background images of artists ranging from Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood, the Who, the Avett Brothers and the String Cheese Incident. Speaking volumes about this man's eclectic approach to music, this pictorial evidence also suggests much about the freewheeling attitude Mizwinski displays on A Year Ago Today, an album of songs replete with self-awareness and rendered with a distinct camaraderie between the author and his accompanists. The ...