20 STRINGS AND THE TRUTH (Dog My Cat) 7/10 Harry Manx works within such slender musical confines that for him to discard one of the few elements he had in play was a high-risk strategy. The Canadian folk-blues singer/guitarist mostly pens material of similar rhythm, tempo, mood (mellow) and texture…
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BURNING GHOSTS (Orenda) 9/10 Daniel Rosenboom has the sort of explosive imagination that triggers creative breakthroughs. Nothing is off limits, and he delights in making high art and anarchy kiss and tumble into bed together. The LA trumpeter has released two new albums simultaneously. The first, Book of Storms, the…
NAKED MUSIC (Moscodisc) 8/10 Eleanor McEvoy calls it Naked Music, most obviously because the band is gone, replaced by her sinewy acoustic guitar with its mix of gentleness and insistence, or occasionally by electric guitar or electric piano. The deeper nakedness lies in her singing and her lyrics. Heartfelt, raw…