Tag: Dylan
Jon Paris – A Man For All Seasons
The Johnny Winter Band, Elephants Memory, Link Wray..if anyone could claim to be a true rock-blues journeyman, Jon Paris is that man. Here, Pete and Jon discuss matters past, present and future…
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Robin Trower – In Real Time
Robin and Pete discuss the new album Coming Closer To The Day, out on Mascot / Provogue as Trower prepares for US dates with his trio. Robin’s creative approach produces a fresh set of compositions, soaked and strewn with his distinctive guitar stylings. He surely remains music’s own Monet or Turner…
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Robin Trower – Coming Closer To The Day
So here is the latest in the series of albums where Robin multi-tasks on the instruments and the vocals as part of what I call his New Testament. And he digs deep, with his musical roots on display and his imagination scraping the sky. The lyrics can bite or prompt reflection and the guitar mastery reigns but with no pomp rock bluster.
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The Zombies On The Band And The Blues (Part Two)
Pete meets up with keyboard ace and composer Rod Argent for a general chat and the latter’s five Blues Choices to make up the group’s ten. Over tea and cakes, Rod’s love of music is ever more evident…
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Blair Jollands
Just Listen To This had the chance to speak with the NZ songsmith, up at the Cornbury Festival. He’s a bit different. But so are we. Here’s our conversation…
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Pete Murray
The Australian songsmith is playing at Bush Hall and we have an invite to see him perform. Opportunists that we are, we offer to arrive early and chat with Murray before the show…thanks Pete for the meet and these informative responses…
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Geraint Watkins – Keys To The Highway
Whether on acoustic piano, electric piano or Hammond, you could not pick a more adept keyboard colleague than Geraint. Here, Pete Sargeant pitches some questions to Watkins as two of his solo albums are at last rereleased…
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Katie Melua – Ultimate Collection
This is a pretty comprehensive round-up of Melua gems plus a few new efforts on a double-album, with some cool monochrome imagery in a fold-out digipak format and a decent booklet. Melua’s DNA has traces of folk, blues, rock and of course her Georgian roots.
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Afterhere – Real Time
When you write about music, you are always looking out for a release that makes you want to play it to everyone you know…everyone who might appreciate the magic that you have picked up on. Even after many years of journalism, it is still a thrill when this happens.
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Glen Matlock – Good To Go
This album rocks like a bitch, but allows for some more tender music. Some of my favourite albums – from The Doors’ Strange Days onwards – pretty much fit that description and this collection is joining them. Matlock is aware of the past but doesn’t live there – most of this record is new or recent material, the one version included is an inspired choice.
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Blair Jollands – 7 Blood
Here is brand new album from Blair Jollands. He is a pleasant fellow to meet and seems to centre his sound around classic romantic vocal styles.
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Curse Of Lono – As I Fell
Felix and crew return with a second album, created with the benefit of many stage performances which have given the ensemble a truly organic musical dynamic presence without blunting their edge. Not a bad place to have attained!
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Maggie Bell
It was a pleasure to chat in detail with Scottish vocal stylist Maggie Bell at an eaterie in downtown Fulham…she is lively, friendly and full of great stories. Having shared the stage a few times with Maggie and guitar ace Dave Kelly, I can vouch for her musical fluency and sense of fun..and man, that voice…
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Afterhere – Addict
This act is a creative outlet for Glenn Gregory of Heaven 17 renown and more and keyboard queen and singer Berenice Scott, who as well as doing studio work has not only played with Heaven 17 but also on the Holy Holy project which involves various Bowie acolytes including Gregory.
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Maria Muller
We are happy to present a personal Q&A with this classy vocalist. It explains much of what makes her tick, so please enjoy her responses. Thank you, Maria!
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Glen Matlock – Never Mind The Trivia
I never wanted to interview Malcolm McLaren, the shapeshifting one-time Sex Pistols manager, because as a would-be and sometimes successful manipulator of the media of his day (wouldn’t he have loved Twitter, SnapChat et al?
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Peter Moses (President Street) – The Necessary Facts
A new act for you to meet, with an intriguing video featuring an actress from the series Wentworth and for the full lowdown we ran these questions past mainman Peter Moses…
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Reverend Freakchild – Dial It In
An individual approach to roots music inspires this release. The guests include one of our favourite guitarists, Mark Karan of Bob Weir’s Ratdog ensemble and Tom Constanten’s Live Dead touring group.
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Sam Brothers
He’s young, he writes songs, he draws on on some perhaps unusual but classic roots influences..and here, Sam Brothers answers some of our questions, painting a picture of where he’s at and where he’s heading. Thanks, Sam
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Rita Coolidge – The Return Of Rita
Of all the album releases that have come our way this year, the warmest and most boldly colourful is probably Safe In The Arms Of Time. So the chance to speak with the veteran songstress about her latest material, inspirations and approach to the songs was more than welcome. Ms Coolidge is responsive, informative and balanced, as this conversation should illustrate…
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Tommy Emmanuel
The Australian guitar stylist is back in the UK for some shows. Ahead of these, we were able to run some questions past the prince of the Fretboard…
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Band Of Friends – Taking Rory Gallagher’s Music Back To The US
Ted McKenna, Davy Knowles and Gerry McAvoy are soon touring the US flying the Rory Gallagher legacy flag – and who better to do it ? Pete asked McAvoy for his thoughts around…well, everything related:
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Rita Coolidge – Safe In The Arms Of Time
I had a first listen to this new Rita Coolidge release without looking at any background notes or recording / players information, just to let the songs sink in and as a result was left with some firm impressions.
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Mike Zito – First Class Life
Zito doesn’t go for that racing around, foot on the monitor, extreme face-pulling style of guitar. He just plays out and keeps his cool, channelling soul through his fingertips. Better still he doesn’t shout or groan, he actually sings..and if these comments puzzle you, you should hear a lot of the stuff we receive to review.
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Love – Forever Changes (50th Anniversary Special Edition)
Is it really fifty years that this singular West Coast album has been thrilling us and intriguing us?
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Danny Bryant – Revelation
With Richard Hammerton again helming production, Bryant returns with a new studio album and digs deep for lyrical inspiration. Perhaps absolution, of a kind. His fiery and flexible guitar work is to the fore and again he is playing with colleagues who work for the song every time.
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Jimi Hendrix -Both Sides Of The Sky
Nearly fifty years after the guitar adventurer’s passing, a new Jimi Hendrix record release is still – potentially – an exciting event for fans. The last one put out was the terrific Machine Gun live set with the Band Of Gypsys crew, sounding rich and powerful with a sparky set of tunes.
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Dan Patlansky – Perfection Kills
From the eyecatching artwork to the recording depth and clarity – especially on Dan’s vocals – to the adventurous and fresh songs themselves, Perfection Kills represents quite a jump forward in impact and appeal of his recordings, for this listener. Elsewhere on this site he explains the story behind this collection of songs in a new Q & A session.
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Lance Lopez – Owning Up
What’s the inspiration behind the songs on Lance’s new album? What’s The Lopez Road Diet? What does he think of Eric Gales’ axe style? It’s all here in this cool exchange with us on ‘Tell The Truth’ – Thank you, Lance and keep rockin’ out…
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Leeroy Stagger – Love Versus
Leeroy looks a little like a missing member of Iron & Wine. On the album cover he is lying in reflective mode on his studio floor, surrounded by leads and gadgets.
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Tom Leighton (The Bad Flowers) -Foot To The Petal
Busy times for this inventive power-trio but we grabbed a slice of time from guitar man Tom Leighton to find out what makes him and his crew tick. Enjoy these responses to our wide-range of questions:
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Steve Logan – In The Spotlight
Steve Logan is a singer – songwriter – instrumentalist with a new album due. We had the chance to run some questions – triggered by his songs – past Logan and can present his thoughtful and informative answers. Thank you, Steve
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Sterling Ball – Mutual Admiration Society
Intrigued by the work by Ball and his trio on the Mutual Appreciation Society release, we asked Sterling to enlarge upon the album content and array of guests by way of a set of customised questions. Enjoy this veteran’s responses and thoughts in this piece, which is free of Ball puns and references, you may be pleased to learn….
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Blitzen Trapper – Wild & Reckless
The enduring Portland rock band recently had a 28-performance run of a musical entitled Wild & Reckless…quite an achievement. And here is an album under that name. It adds new numbers to gems from their catalogue, which seems fan-friendly as a plan.
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Gregg Allman – Southern Blood
As his time on Earth ran out, Gregg Allman insisted that he wanted to record an album reflecting on his life and influences, at the studio where HourGlass and Allman Bros records had been made.
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Dave Stewart – Nashville Sessions The Duets Vol. 1
One of the best Tony Joe White albums is the one featuring duets with female vocalists. Here music maestro Stewart puts together the various duets to be found on his Blackbird Studio Sessions trilogy of albums, which I have – to form a compilation of the best tracks in this format.
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Wilko Johnson – As The Years Go Passing By
It’s an anniversary year for our guitar-toting livewire, still firing after a close brush with death. When Pete and the then seriously ailing Wilko last met to talk life and music at his, our man said he thought Johnson would somehow pull through and the two-part interview that we ran ended with Pete the more optimistic of the two. Operations proved successful, Johnson survived and here we are, catching up now for a celebratory Part Three…
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George Thorogood – Party Of One
My abiding memory of this is entertaining artist is being backstage at the Shepherds Bush Empire trying to interview the opening act Big Head Todd & The Monsters, with a gruff voice coming through the cracked door intoning “ We owe it all to George Thorogood ! He is The Man !”…
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The Hallows
This three-piece band formed in London in 2014 and have individually cited Tori Amos, The Smashing Pumpkins and The Foo Fighters as influences on their rock sound. With their debut album Of Time and Tides scheduled for a summer release and several live dates being finalized, Pete sat down with the band for a customised set of interview questions. Here are their responses…
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John Otway & The Big Band – Montserrat
The lanky guitar and vocal stylist arrives at the far-flung island on a mission and any self-respecting Otway fan would say “Haven’t these islanders suffered enough ??”
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Wilko Johnson – Keep It To Myself (The Best of Wilko Johnson)
I have recently spoken to the guitar man in black we know as Wilko Johnson for a third installment in our series of chats about him, his life, his music – watch this site for the publication of that.
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John Mayer – The Search For Everything
A new album from the American songwriter and performer which he is about to promote in London and elsewhere. You never quite know what this artist is going to come out with, his solo albums have no great pattern.
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Matt Andersen – Honest Man
He’s from New Brunswick but this record was put together in New York, under the eye of producer Commissioner Gordon.
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Mike Zito – Make Blues Not War
A Tom Hambridge musical production is always worth a listen – just ask Buddy Guy or Quinn Sullivan ! – and with a talent such as Mike Zito you have virtual guarantee of quality singing and playing.
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Bill Kirchen & Austin De Lone – Transatlantica
The Master Of The Telecaster teams up with the ebullient Ace Of The 88s to make a brand new album that they are about to tour. Their live sets roll from excitement to tenderness to caustic humour and back, peppered with virtuoso instrumental solos.
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Dan Owen – Made To Love You (Single)
Dan Owen Made To Love You (Single) (LAB Records) Dan Owen is a 24-year old singer-songwriter from...
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