Reviews

KATHY KALLICK BAND FOXHOUNDS Live Oak Records 610 Kathy Kallick has held a predominate bluegrass band in Northern California for a long time. Her distinctive voice brings to mind great female singers of the past like Wilma Lee Leary (aka Cooper). Her band is top flight and really delivers the goods. Annie Staninec plays fiery…

RICK EDNIE WHITE TURTLE DOVE No Label No Number Rick Ednie was busy in the studio in 2015. A singer/songwriter and an accomplished guitarist from Santa Cruz, Cal., he recorded two albums that year. This is the second one and consists of eight original songs and one original instrumental, all underpinned by a fairly traditional…

THE BLUEGRASS KINSMEN MY DAILY PRAYER TBK Recordings TBK-2015-001   This is a gospel release from this Tazewell, Va.-based band. Founded by Ebby and Teresa Jewell, the group has been together for over 44 years and has a long love for traditional music, especially gospel. Ebby plays banjo and guitar, while Teresa contributes lead and…

ALISON BROWN THE SONG OF THE BANJO Compass Records 746582 How many diverse sounds can you evoke from the banjo? When it’s Alison Brown holding the instrument, the answer is ad infinitum. But she limits her creative stretching to 12 songs and one bonus track on her new CD. “Most listeners don’t know how to…

TIM O’BRIEN POMPADOUR Howdy Skies Records HOW-CD-2015 Tim O’Brien has been busy collaborating with Darrell Scott, Earls Of Leicester, and Hot Rize. So, it’s little wonder that the award-winning folk and bluegrass singer/songwriter has taken four years to release this solo project, but it was definitely worth the wait. He’d started on an album a…

CHRISTOPHER HENRY I’M GONNA WAIT ON JESUS Arrendem Music AR 270 Christopher Henry’s latest all-original recording recalls in some ways his previous effort Making My Way To You. There was bluegrass on that one, and there’s bluegrass on this one, specifically the gospel tune “I’m Gonna Wait On Jesus” and “Miss Missing You.” But as…