PAUL WEST, Eight Palms Ranch
Emerging singer-songwriter Paul West’s earthy, down home storytelling skills, sometimes raucous, often heartfelt vocal delivery and...
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THE JW VIBE
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Jonathan Widran
- Nov 12, 2022
CHARLEY CARROZO, Blinded Times
After these hellish, anxiety filled past three years, hell yeah, it makes perfect sense that “Namaste” is the highlighted, most promoted...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 11, 2022
DAPHNE PARKER POWELL, The Starter Wife
On her sixth album, but very importantly, her first as Daphne Parker Powell after a decade dba Daphne Lee Martin, the intensely...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 26, 2022
PHIL HURLEY, The Firebird Sessions
In the nearly 30 years since his band Gigolo Aunts hit the UK charts with “Where I Find My Heaven” from the Dumb & Dumber soundtrack,...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 28, 2022
KIMBERLY MORGAN YORK, Keep On Goin'
Yes, the story behind the release of Found Yourself a Lady, the debut album by the delightful, deeply impactful, emotionally incisive...
Jonathan Widran
- May 6, 2022
WOOD WILLOW, Southern Intentions
From a promotional standpoint, it makes sense to entice listeners to experience extraordinary new (though deeply old soul) artists like...
Jonathan Widran
- Apr 8, 2022
ANDREW SALGADO, 86 Vol 2 - Autumn Dawn
For an indie artist as ultra-talented, multi-faceted and good hearted/service oriented as Andrew Salgado, sometimes having a years-long...
Jonathan Widran
- Apr 7, 2022
OPAL CANYON, Tomorrow to the Sea
Perhaps it’s a petty point in this streaming age when album art is often experienced as tiny thumbnail images, but the psychedelic...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 26, 2022
BAILEY BIGGER, Coyote Red
With an old musical storytelling soul wise beyond her early 20-something years and infused with the same colorful plainspoken emotion and...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 26, 2022
ARI PAPPALARDO, Minstrel Class
In contemplating the unique title of Ari Pappalardo’s brilliantly eclectic, atmospheric yet grounded, rootsy and organic yet often...
Jonathan Widran
- Jan 30, 2022
KIMBERLY MORGAN YORK, Found Yourself A Lady
Besides the immense raw rootsy pleasure of hearing a powerhouse multi-talented female country artist record authentic old school...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 8, 2021
ANNALYSE & RYAN, "Singing With Angels"
For the spiritual minded listener, a key verse from Scripture may come to mind while listening to “Singing for Angels,” popular Americana...
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