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Joe Iadanza – All In Good Time

4 May 2010 /

Classic.

In the ten new songs on his second CD American singer-songwriter Joe Iadanza makes a big step forward.

Much more subdued than on his good debut Traveling Salesman Iadanza stays much closer to folk than to roots music this time. The total absence of up-tempo songs in favour of ballads is striking, although in his lyrics Iadanza takes a stance just as categorically as on that first one.

From opener Skin And Bones to closing song American Dream he sings about great themes in the directly appealing way of the classic folk heroes: a soldier gets crushed by the war, a man holding two jobs gets crushed by the economic crisis, a son compares his life to his deceased father’s and a musician on tour longs for his lover at home.

Musically all songs are very restrained: Continue reading

Melleville – John Dear Mowing Club

4 May 2010 /

Emotional knock-out.

The John Dear Mowing Club from the Hague is singer/guitarist/graphic artist Melle de Boer’s vehicle, just like when the band was still called Smutfish. On their debut Lawnmower Mind, the ep The Fish That Couldn’t Swim and Through A Slightly Open Door De Boer also determined the tone of voice alone, just like on the untitled debut of the John Dear Mowing Club after that.

That goes even more for Melleville. There De Boer gets minimal company of other musicians only nine times in seventeen songs that he recorded in his workshop.

Thematically they blend seamlessly with earlier work: Continue reading

Bill Price – With The Eye Of A Skeptic..…

20 April 2010 /

www.billprice.info

Idealist.

Graphic designer Bill Price has alternated CD’s with his band The Brains Behind Pa with solo efforts since 2002.

In the thirteen songs on his second full-length solo CD the singer/guitarist Bill plays more acoustically than on his previous ones, The Circus And The Gallows and Bones And Apples,  and on the two CDs with his group. Still BBP keyboardist Gary Bole and BBP bass player Jefff Stone play servingly. Price’s guitar and vocals and Paul Holdman’s semi-acoustic guitar solos determine the sound.

Against an often swinging, folky background Price again proves that he can make all kinds of themes personal as a storyteller: Continue reading

Lee Harvey Osmond – A Quiet Evil

13 April 2010 /

In ten songs on A Quiet Evil about eighteen Canadians play, while the band’s core exists of eight men and a woman. That does not lead to much volume, because singer Tom Wilson (ex-Junkhouse) and guitarist/producer Michael Timmins prefer moody ballads, although there also are three restrained uptempo-songs. Continue reading

Marybeth D’Amico – Heaven, Hell, Sin & Redemption

13 April 2010 /

From within.

American Marybeth D’Amico already made the unnoticed Waiting To Fly after having discovered Patty Griffin and Kathleen Edwards among others.

D’Amico moves self-conciously in an impeccable production by guitarist/bassist Bradley Kopp between country(rock), folk and singer-songwriter. She can rock languidly together with the likes of  Richard Bowden – fiddle and Lloyd Maines – dobro and pedal steel, but can also make two teenagers in love long for Nietsche and Kierkegaard in stylish country rock. Continue reading

Jesse Moore is looking for funds for third CD

10 April 2010 /

New Orleans’ singer-songwriter Jesse Moore is trying to raise funds for his third CD via Threadhead Records.

The budget for recording, mixing and mastering has been raised already, but Moore needs another $ 2500, – for printing and packaging the CD.

Jesse Moore again joins forces with Anders Osborne as his producer, the once Swedish singer-songwriter that has lived and worked in New Orleans for twenty odd years now.

Osborne also produced Moore’s prevoius CD, the very beautiful More Than Life Itself. Continue reading

Jesse Moore – More Than Life Itself

10 April 2010 /

www.jessemoore.com

Contemporary classic.

The Hoodoo Man, import New Orlenian Moore’s first, was a versatile CD with influences from blues and pop music, but especially funk. His self-penned songs sounded enthusiastic and swinging. Closing song You Won’t Be There appealed most to producer/singer-songwriter Anders Osborne apparently, a still, acoustic ballad about the sorrow of loss.

Osborne clearly takes advantage of that side on Moore’s second. Moore profiles himself in eleven songs as a singer-songwriter, of which paradoxically only five are his own. That stillness is increased further by the accompanying musicians: guitarist John Fohl, keyboardist John Gros, bassist Casandra Faulconer and drummer Kevin O’Day left out superfluous notes many times already. Moore’s own opener sets the tone for that: Gros’ gritty organ snatches, O’Day’s lightly ticking drums and Faulconer’s bass meandering around them blend with Moore’s acoustic guitar. On top of that he sings, stretching the syllables. Only halfway does Fohl join in, playing nothing but clear riffs.

In other songs Moore gets room too for his emotional vocals. Continue reading

New Orleans’s Threadhead Records produces CDs bottom-up.

10 April 2010 /

The New Orleans based label Threadhead Records raises funds for recording and releasing CDs, but te act in queation is required to pay the money back within a year. Apart from that, the act promises to remit an amount to one of the charities that supports music life in New Orleans.

That amount is ten per cent of the total amount raised, but the act pays that itself: it is not deducted from the money lent from fans.

Threadhead Records’ profile: Continue reading

Joe Iadanza – Traveling Salesman

6 April 2010 /

American singer-songwriter Joe Iadanza released his debut in 2008: ten self-penned songs on his then unnoticed debut CD.

In them Iadanza accurately combines folk with some rootsy and jazzy elements. In a mix of up-tempo songs and ballads this traveling salesman believes in the power of lyrics and in that of love.

In the thematic opener he sings of himself as a wandering folkie. Born into a family of immigrants and union members he is serves the tradition of comfort and justice, despite the disappointment of his family about that. Continue reading

What Matters Most – Vince Melamed

6 April 2010 /

His  own voice.

Keyboardist/singer Vince Melamed has written hits through the years for Trisha Yearwood, Tina Turner, Jimmy Buffett and others. At the same time he was a musician for acts like the Eagles, Dan Fogelberg, Bobby Womack and Bob Dylan.

That explains that the the songs that are on his first CD now, were written between 1990 and 2009. Because of his parents’ death Melamed realised that he wanted to record the songs that had been turned into hits by others under his own name.

Apart from those songs, mostly sung by country acts, there are four new songs on his CD too. Continue reading

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