Denise La Grassa – A Crossroads Communion If you’re looking for an original singer with a distinctive brand, Chicago-born Denise La Grassa is the ticket. She has the pipes, but isn’t like any of the well-known high-octane female belters of the past. There’s a quirky, deep-throated, polished hell-bent tonality to Ms. La Grassa that stands […]
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The Gated Community – Goodbye Work Wonderful music continues to cross my desk. Lots of talent. Some lack direction, but this Minneapolis-based Gated Community isn’t one. They have a light touch & a melodic vitality. The bright “Hand In the Air” opens the set (not listed on my CD, it’s out of sequence), sung with […]
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Spike &The Gandy Dancers What You Gonna Be? This album was released earlier (2025), but this is the main push. It starts with a pensive ballad sung in a strong, authoritative voice by Peter VanDusartz (aka Spike), who plays acoustic guitar. The introductory “Be Here Now Now” is engaging, while track 2 is unnecessarily steeped […]
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Canadian songwriter Cat Clyde shared two songs from her fourth full-length album Mud Blood Bone with us on her “day off” between shows at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn, and Club Passim in Cambridge.
Between songs, Clyde discussed the album’s creation, including her collaboration
A voice like Charlie Marie’s doesn’t come along too often, but when people were floored by it in 2021 upon release of her phenomenal, hard-won debut Ramble On, she wasn’t prepared for the reverberations. As her golden-throated country songs were finally catching on, her
Coby Acuff goes full-blown Outlaw on ‘Handmade Horsepower,’ laying grooves down, giving into two-tone beats, featuring a little phaser on the guitar every now and then, and getting outright mouthy about the ills of the music industry.
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