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The Golden Door
posted: March 5, 2012
Don’t let the name fool you”Statue of Liberty isn’t an empire state-of-mind band. The folk rock duo, comprised of Bobby Bradford and Marywood Kate, hail from Boulder, CO by way of Dubuque, IA. Their music…
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The Lone Wolf
posted: February 15, 2012
Michael Tolcher‘s music career had an inauspicious start: busking on Atlanta’s Peachtree Street and hawking tapes recorded on a jambox in his bathroom. Years later, Tolcher’s upgraded his game just a little. After a five-year…
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Easy Rider
posted: February 8, 2012
Maybe it was destiny, maybe it was coincidence, but when Noel Johnson came across an old Fender acoustic in a back alley in his hometown of Calgary at the age of sixteen, his fate was…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Jonathan Wilson's Canyon Spirit
posted: September 28, 2011
With touches of everything from psychedelia to folk-rock to prog, singer/songwriter Jonathan Wilson‘s new album, Gentle Spirit, is something of a beard rocker’s”or more accurately, beard balladeer’s”wet dream, the kind of recording that sounds like…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: The Jayhawks Soar Once More
posted: September 14, 2011
When The Jayhawks first got together in 1985 Minneapolis, Gram Parsons and The Louvin Brothers did not enjoy the same kind of default-option status they command as rock-band influences today. Country-rockers were thin on the…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Burlap To Cashmere Bounces Back
posted: June 1, 2011
It’s not insignificant that Burlap to Cashmere‘s second album is self-titled. It’s usually a band’s debut album that bears this distinction, but in many ways, this seems like the maiden voyage of a new band.…
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