Albums Of The Month – May 2020
We reveal our top six Ruthie Foster – Photo: Supplied Top Six Releases May 2020 By Rob Dickens This month’s new albums have proven to be a blessing and a curse. So much great new music hitting the streets (or about to), that I have had quite a time to zero in on just six outings. Also, some of those are so worthy that I felt that a mini-review in this format was not appropriate across the board. Accordingly, I have already...
Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels
We review Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams – Photo: LTTL By Rob Dickens Lucinda Williams Good Souls Better Angels Highway 20/Thirty Tigers 24 April 2020 It has been a longer gap between releases for Lucinda Williams. If you exclude her 2017 re-imagining of 1992’s Sweet Old World, it has been four years since her previous original collection The Ghosts of Highway 20. Williams spent last year touring with the centrepiece...
Lucinda Williams Re-Imagines A Sweet Old World
Read about Lucinda Williams’ new project – a surprising reworking of an oldie Sweet Old World Gets A Make-Over Grammy-winner and alt.country/Americana icon Lucinda Williams has done something quite unusual. She has re-recorded an earlier album and will release a new version next month. Sweet Old World was released in 1992, between the classic 1988 Lucinda Williams album and the game-changing Car...
On Smooth Waters
Read our review of ‘Cayamo Sessions’ by Buddy Miller & Friends BUDDY MILLER & FRIENDS CAYAMO SESSIONS AT SEA DUE JANUARY 29 2016 INCLUDES KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, KACEY MUSGRAVES, LEE ANN WOMACK, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, RICHARD THOMPSON, NIKKI LANE, SHAWN COLVIN I write this with not a little trepidation. It’s not that I don’t like this new album. I do … by a good length, in horse racing parlance....
Best Live Shows 2014
Read our list of top twenty favourite live shows in 2014 If I thought choosing twenty album releases for the year was a challenge, reporting on the best live shows in 2014 has been extremely tough. My live music year in can be described as plentiful and remarkable. Plentiful in the sense that I outdid past deeds in attending seven music festivals for the year which I estimate to equate to about twenty three full days of music...