Gary Nicholson And His Alter Ego Whitey Johnson Each Have New Albums
Viewers of Fox News are probably not going to be big fans of Gary Nicholson’s new album, The Great Divide. The album’s 11 folk-rooted songs, most written by him, are political but not polemical. And they express American verities that…
TIME IN THE SEQUOIAS INSPIRES JASON RINGENBERG’S NEWEST ALBUM, STAND TALL
There Jason Ringenberg was, tending to his farm in Tennessee, where the musician grows fruit and vegetables for his family. It’s what he calls his hobby farm. In addition, for the last six years he’s seriously farmed his Illinois family…
Graham Parker Album Anniversary Sparks Another Songbook by Martin Belmont
Forty years ago, Graham Parker and the Rumour released their fourth studio album, Squeezing Out Sparks, to critical and popular acclaim. It topped the Village Voice’s 1979 Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll. In Creem magazine’s Top Album Readers’ Poll for…