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Unsigned Treasures: Melissa Engleman - At the Hotel Cafe (2010)
By Nick DeRiso Austin-based singer-songwriter Melissa Engleman explores life with a tough vulnerability on the urban folk set At the Hotel Café, often displaying a fortitude so quiet as to deceive. She gets knocked to the ground, while brilliantly fusing alt-country, singer-songwriter folk and whispers of blues, but notice that she never hints at staying down. ...
One Track Mind: Buffalo Springfield, "Mr. Soul" (1967)
By Nick DeRiso Was thinking about the aptly titled Buffalo Springfield Again, and this brilliant grungy mess, after hearing news that the band would reform for a tour later in the year. Recorded in 1967 for the second of what would be a brief three-album tenure for Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young's “Mr. Soul" builds off the ...
Eva Cassidy - Simply Eva (2011)
By S. Victor Aaron Eva Cassidy had only one record released in her lifetime, a live document at a local club in her native area of Washington, D.C. She only sang covers, most of them overly familiar, finding them within the realms of jazz, Tin Pan Alley, folk, pop, gospel and blues. Her insistence on not ...
George Shearing Quintet with Nancy Wilson - The Swingin's Mutual (1961)
By Nick DeRiso One of the smartest things Nancy Wilson ever did was start singing at the Blue Morocco in New York City, just after she blew in from Columbus, Ohio. In was there, while Wilson still had her day job, that John Levy caught this smoking-hot 20-something's act. Levy, once a bassist with George Shearing, ...
Nordic Connect - Spirals (2011)
By S. Victor Aaron Nordic Connect is a grouping of musicians from Canada (Ingrid Jensen, trumpet; Ingrid's sister Christine Jensen, alto and soprano saxophones), U.S.A. (Ingrid's husband Jon Wikan, drums), and Sweden (Maggie Olin (piano, Fender Rhodes; Mattias Welin, acoustic bass). The name points up to the Scandinavian ancestry of all its members, and the shared ...
Guilty Pleasures: Jeff Lynne and the Electric Light Orchestra
By Something Else Reviews It's true, as Randy Newman once impishly sang, they were six fine English boys who knew each other in Birmingham. After that, things got tricky for the Electric Light Orchestra. Despite an impressive string of 1970s hits, they became an easy target. People knocked the strings. The Beatlemania. Jeff Lynne's spaceman fro. ...
Mark and Glenn Zaleski - Duet Suite (2011)
By Mark Saleski One of the markers of high-level instrumental interplay is the perception of intimacy. We see this again & again in review language—that the musicians seemed as though they were “of one mind," that their communication was “telepathic." There are plenty of recorded examples that come to mind: Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock's An ...
Something Else! Reviews on the 2011 Grammy Winners
Checking in with our thoughts on a few of tonight's winners from the 2011 Grammy Awards, including the Black Keys — the top-rated Something Else! Reviews record from last year—and Buddy Guy, as well as Neil Young and Mavis Staples, among others. Click through the album titles for more ... THE BLACK KEYS, BROTHERS (winner for ...
Drive-by Truckers - Go-Go Boots (2011)
By S. Victor Aaron You might have noticed by now I've been following the Drive-By Truckers pretty closely lately: 2008's Brighter Than Creation's Dark got a fairly detailed evaluation when it first came out, and it hadn't been for The Black Keys' Brothers, The Big To-Do most likely would have been my favorite rock record of ...
Alvin Batiste - Marsalis Music Honors Series (2007)
By Nick DeRiso People think of clarinets as this sound from a different era, and the guys who play them as having done so in black and white. The late Alvin Batiste, who initially found his muse in Charlie Parker's “Now's the Time," was never that way. His isn't a same-ole, same-ole southland sound so much ...
