Tight pre-Bluegrass country harmonizing This old-timey North Carolina trio (Mark Jackson on guitar, Adam Tanner on mandolin and fiddle, and Duane Anderson on stand-up bass) return with their second album of early-country inspired harmonizing. As on their first album, 2010's Evening Shade , the singing brings to mind the Delmores and Louvins, and the song list recounts several of the brothers' tunes alongside traditional songs and later country works. Jackson and Tanner can each sing lead, but it's the blending of their voices that creates the brightest sparks. The [...]
We're home from the folkfields after a two-week hiatus, tanned, rested, and ready to explicate the current state of folk as represented by this year's mainstage and sidestage lineups and their accompanying buzz. While we gather our thoughts [and CDs] for our annual post-fest megapost, here's the best of what landed in the mailbox during our absence. With its tender mix of old-timey reconstructions, traditional tunes, original songs, and recorded field narratives, On The Brooklyn Road - an incredible new country roots album from [...]
As regular visitors to the blog will know we are suckers for most things with a"roots" tag. In fact, anything half-decent ticking the Folk, Country, or Americana boxes is in with a chance on MM and this bunch is a whole lot more than half-decent. From start to finish, Jo Henley's album Mohawk is brimming with story-songs: a rollicking retelling of the Schenectady Massacre of 1690, a Celtic-tinged ditty about the plight of the Irish immigrants who found work digging the Erie Canal, dark ballads about some of Campolieto's most intimate and haunting memories, [...]
Every Wednesday, I feature a brief review of at least one album that has been submitted to me through the ReviewShine website. I have cleverly titled this recurring segment "ReviewShine Wednesday." Today we focus on the traditional revivalist duo The Twilite Broadcasters. The Broadcasters are Adam Tanner on mandolin, fiddle, and vocals and Mark Jackson on guitar and vocals, two artists from very different backgrounds who are bound together through a love of early American music. Tanner is a California native who grew up [...]
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