BACON JAMES, Lost and Found (At the Santa Fe)
by Brix Jennings What truly resonates in a song? Something written about generic love, penned by a group of people hoping to appeal to...
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THE JW VIBE
Music That Sticks To My Soul
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Jonathan Widran
- Apr 4
R FOR ROMEO, Plan R
Reuniting through a mutual friend in 2018 decades after first playing in the backing band for Atlantic-signed pop/R&B singer Martee...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 26
MIKE STINSON & JOHNNY IRION, Working My Way Down
The eleven instant classic barnburners and ballads on Mike Stinson & Johnny Irion’s album Working My Way Down are soulfully and...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 23
LEX GREY AND THE URBAN PIONEERS, How Many Roads?
Closing in on 20 years as a true cult rock diva in her home base of NYC, multi-faceted powerhouse vocalist, musical Renaissance woman and...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 23
KINGSLEY DURANT, Convertible
In trying to grasp the multitude of creative and career transitions that have brought versatile guitarist to the equally simmering and...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 2
JENN HOWARD, Valiant Women
Trying to position Jenn Howard’s stellar, powerfully reflective and deeply cathartic new breakthrough album Valiant Women as a project...
Jonathan Widran
- Feb 26
DEWAYNE PATE, On the Upside
The title of On the Upside, veteran bassist Dewayne Pate’s first solo album in nearly 15 years, says it all about the silver linings for...
Jonathan Widran
- Feb 15
AMBER NICHOLSON, Far Away Dreaming
Conventional love song wisdom might tell us that the five gloriously relatable and soulful, pop, jazz, blues and country inflected tunes...
Jonathan Widran
- Dec 27, 2022
PAUL WEST, Eight Palms Ranch
Emerging singer-songwriter Paul West’s earthy, down home storytelling skills, sometimes raucous, often heartfelt vocal delivery and...
Jonathan Widran
- Nov 12, 2022
MIGUEL KERTSMAN, In the Moment
A wildly adventurous, genre-busting and insanely tribal and percussive jam session, Miguel Kertsman’s perfectly titled album In the...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 17, 2022
ALLEN AUSTIN-BISHOP, Christmas
Though he launched his recording career putting his fascinating trademark sandpaper and soul vocal spin and fanciful arrangements on...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 26, 2022
JOE MARCINEK BAND,
The word “band” can mean a lot of things, from a longstanding group of cats, to a core whose surrounding players often change to the kind...
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