JACQUI NAYLOR, Treasures of the Heart
Besides her impossibly soulful and crystal clear, emotive voice that’s at home in jazz and a multitude of other genres (pop, R&B, blues),...
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THE JW VIBE
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Jonathan Widran
- Mar 16
QUEEN ESTHER, Things Are Looking Up
Boasting a fascinating breakneck creative background that makes her official bio at least if not more fascinating than her famous...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 20, 2023
SAINT PACIFIC, Blue
If you really dig on the raw, sometimes edgy hard rolling yet often sensitively soulful rock blues storyteller tunes on Saint Pacific’s...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 2, 2023
JAKE AARON, Always Seeking
Perhaps not since Elton John’s 1970 classic Tumbleweed Connection has a British artist so artfully and dynamically embraced...
Jonathan Widran
- May 5, 2023
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...
Jonathan Widran
- Apr 4, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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...
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