The Molenes - Songs of Sin and Redemption
New England doesn't seem to be a fertile spawning ground for band playing Roots music. As an area it seems more inclined to go along the lines of punk or folk...

Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams - The Great Unravel
Joziah Longo and his fellow Slambovians have always made substantial, well grounded, records. And I say records intently, because in the headroom of Slambovia...

Angel Band - With Roots and Wings
The Angel Band is three extremely talented ladies; Nancy Josephson, Jen Schonwald and Kathleen Weber, whose combined and individual voices will...

Ani DiFranco - Live At Babeville
Coming back after baby with a new band in an 1871-era church she rescued from demolition and remodeled into a music hall, DiFranco...

Moreland and Arbuckle - 1861
This band has a sound that comes out of the speakers with a fury that has the power of an uninterrupted wind as it drives the snow into every crevice of the body and rips...

Stewed Roots - In The Middle of This
This is a quiet, mostly acoustic record that has thirteen mostly well-written songs on it by two Canadian women: Jeff (Jennifer) Hale and Neva Tesolin...

Malachi Doyle - Flood Alleviation Scheme
Start with a boy in London growing up around a bunch of traditional Irish folks music, add a heavy fascination for American roots music, expose him to Frank Zappa...

Tommy Strazza - Welcome To the Rest Of Your Life
Man, this takes me back! Back to the late 70s and early 80s when arena rock was called just plain old rock, when ladies dressed to the skin tight nines and...

Van Morrison - Keep It Simple
This disc harks back to the Van Morrison of "Astral Weeks" or "Inarticulate Speech of The Heart" in feel. The songs stay simple and yet ripe with implication. Each...

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