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Buddy Guy - Living Proof (2010)
By Nick DeRiso News this week that Buddy Guy had been Grammy nominated for best contemporary blues album had me revisiting the scalding blisses of Living Proof. I loved it from the first solo, this sharp outburst of gnarled sexuality on “74 Years Young": “There ain't nothing I haven't done," Guy yowls, giving the finger to ...
The Friday Morning Listen: Regina Spektor - Far (2009)
By Mark Saleski Lots of review sites have already posted their best-of lists for 2010. We here at SomethingElse! are still in heavy consideration mode. Every single evening for the past couple of weeks we have been locking ourselves into the SomethingElse!Study with our slippers, smoking jackets, top-shelf brandy, and sharpened pencils. Now don't you laugh...Nick ...
Unsigned Treasures: Tony Savarino - Guitaring (2010)
By Nick DeRiso The worry, with any rock-guitar virtuoso's recording, is that it will quickly devolve into onanistic noodling. But Tony Savarino's Guitaring adroitly sidesteps the problem with a keen eye for variety, and a welcome sense of unselfishness in the studio. The Boston-bred musician is a dabbler, with a finger in everything from rock to ...
Jason Robinson - The Two Faces of Janus (2010)
By Pico I've always had a hard time distinguishing West Coast jazz from East Coast jazz by ear. I mean. I know it's supposed to be a more smoothed-out “cooler" variant of the vigorous, sometimes jarring jazz that comes out of NYC and I know that guys like Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker and Bud Shank are ...
Redwing Blackbird - That River Skinned a Bear (2010)
By Mark Saleski There are so many things we depend upon in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire that it's sometimes easy to forget that not all of them have been around forever...or will continue to be so. Just as the mountain itself solidly anchors our mental picture of the area, there are so many other ...
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig (2010)
By Mark Saleski Sometimes, the history of music is full of surprises. Another way of looking at it: I'm surprised by my own ignorance. When I think of the South and old-time music, the blues, whites, and blacks, I tend to think of the musics as being mostly separated, with old-time music being a purely white ...
Buena Vista Social Club - At Carnegie Hall (2008)
By Nick DeRiso There is an uncommon nostalgia associated with this concert recording, and not just because of the lost history shared amongst these aging former Cuban stars. Alas, Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall wasn't released until after many of the original group had already passed. Yet, it still plays like a kinetic burst ...
Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica - The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel (2010)
By Mark Saleski Walk down the street and stop twenty random people, asking them their opinion of Esquivel? If you get less than 19 “Huhwuh?"'s, I'd be impressed. That's sort of too bad because Juan Garcia Esquivel had far too many musical ideas in his head. Add some pedal steel to the sound of a big ...
Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea (2010)
By Nick DeRiso He's got a name that sounds like the future. So, naturally, you expect Brian Eno to be ever changing, on the move, eyes continually fixed on the horizon. That's why I was starting to hate Small Craft on a Milk Sea. Eno's new album opens with a crystalline piano line, echoing across a ...
Unsigned Treasures: Erwilian - Midwinter's Night (2010)
By Nick DeRiso At once neo-renaissance, new age and something akin to blissed-out bluegrass, Erwilian's holiday-themed concert recording Midwinter's Night neatly sidesteps the pre-conceived notion of sickly sweet Yuletide fare. Midwinter's Night, instead, is a concert souvenir from warm night of remembrance, affection and camaraderie—sparked by these friendly-as-family band members, who frequently interact. This cozy framework, ...
