Reviews

CRICKET TELL THE WEATHER No Label No Number Cricket Tell the Weather is a quartet that dubs itself “a singer-songwriter based acoustic string band out of New York City.” While I wouldn’t normally open a review by quoting from a band’s own website, their online biography helps explain a few things about their debut CD….

MATT LEADBETTER No Label No Number Like father, like son. Phil Leadbetter’s son Matt, a fine resonator guitarist himself, now gets his solo debut turn. Predominantly an instrumentalist by trade, it’s not surprising that Leadbetter programmed five instrumentals among his thirteen tracks. The best of them, and one of the two best tracks here, is…

JESSE MILNES & EMILY MILLER DEEP END SESSIONS, VOLUME II No Label No Number If you like your acoustic music on the stripped down and authentic, old-time edge of the roots spectrum, this album is for you. The first recording Jesse Milnes and Emily Miller have done as a duo is the second in a…

JERRY SALLEY GOSPEL FROM MY GRASSROOTS Very Jerry Records No Number Award-winning country, gospel and bluegrass songwriter Jerry Salley steps to center stage with the release of his first all-gospel album. Bluegrass fans may recognize several songs here and also been impressed by Salley’s live trio performances with fellow songwriters Carl Jackson and Larry Cordle….

ROB ICKES DOBRO® INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS. VOL. 1: SLOWER TEMPO SONGS AND BACKING UP A VOCALIST; VOL. 2: MONROBRO, FIDDLE TUNES AND UPTEMPO SONGS; VOL. 3: MASTERING THE FRETBOARD—SCALES, ARPEGGIOS AND MORE. (Resorevolution, P.O. Box 682551, Franklin, TN 37068, www.resorevolution.com.) It’s rare for an instructional video for a particular instrument to offer something to players of…

DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS WEARY RIVER Patuxent Records CD-270 Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass avidly revisit and revitalize the back pages of bluegrass music’s roots, as well as the back pages of their band’s own rich tradition. With Paisley’s teenage son Ryan on mandolin, that tradition now stretches across three generations. Paisley…