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NOCTURNAL ADORATION SOCIETY, All The Time In The World
A Google search for Nocturnal Adoration Society, the fascinating moniker pioneering alt-country mandolinist and singer Jimmy Ryan (Blood...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 23, 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...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 15, 2023


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
Dec 27, 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
Nov 12, 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
Oct 11, 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
Sep 25, 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
Jul 28, 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
May 6, 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 8, 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
Apr 7, 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 25, 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
Mar 25, 2022
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