Rumpke Mountain Boys craft a blend of bluegrass styles that are fun to listen to, filled with undeniable skill and genre wisdom, and that are wonderfully loose and alive.
After years of touring and recording, We Belong to the Love is live-recorded testament to a band that has carefully honed a sound both broadly inviting and consistently beautiful.
A solid sophomore release that presents a style reminiscent to many classic rock standards and hooks that will have you humming along to them long after the album stops playing.
In their third release, Blue James Band explores various genres and intertwines them neatly into a package that will appeal to seemingly disparate ears.
MMW must certainly know that their magic lies in their live performances, and so the release of Free Magic only makes sense as an addendum to the glory of their studio albums and the experience of seeing them...
The album is an appropriate addition to his previous work but it also offers an intriguing glimpse of something great that could have taken “Tigerface” in a whole new direction.
Sounding like a lesson in merging the blues with funk, jam rock, and an occasional tasty jazz lick for garnish, Elephant Graveyard is a sophomore album worthy of pride.
By highlighting sterling guitar and soulful lyrics against a backdrop of R&B, rock, and country, “Step Into the Light” offers alternating moments of introspection, fun, and hilarity in its 11 tracks.
Brooklyn-based Les Racquet’s newly released EP is an exciting introduction to this power trio, a group that exists in a realm somewhere outside the limits of most power trios that likely come to mind.
