REVIEW: Vi Wickam “The Thanksgiving Album”
Vi Wickam – The Thanksgiving Album The songs in this set not only have a recipe for a seasonal appetite but also ingredients such as soul, humor & love. Colorado-based Vi Wickam (a champion fiddler) decorates his showcase with genre-bending music through swipes of bluegrass, swing, roots, & folk. These 9 festive-based soundtrack tunes blend […]
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Jammy Man Tunes This is the Colorado ensemble’s 4th LP, comprised of 2 brothers with birthnames so boring they switched to Tumbly Tumbler (fiddle/pedal steel/harmonica/electric guitar/dobro/harmony/lead vocal) & Jammy Man (guitars/lead & harmony vocals). The whoppingly heavy 17-song rock, blues, & country-inspired package Tunes (Dropped Oct 31/Independent/74:31) was produced with a “hippie” touch by Paul […]
Mike Bourne Band – Kansas City O’clock This album’s songs are shaped from a blues that comes from another kind of clay. Kansas City is not deep South blues; it threads its coat from a Big Band fabric, with jazz, rhythm & blues, jump blues & ‘50s rock ‘n’ roll without a chaser. The inspired […]