Music Review: Miss Derringer – Winter Hill

Ready, aim, fire. There’s a new sheriff in town this summer, and she’s coming to get you.

Music Review: Real Animals by Alejandro Escovedo (2009 Update)
(This is a repost during my vacation week. I’m selecting some content from 2008 that had no comments.) Back in April 2008, I enjoyed my fourth Bruce Springsteen concert. It was the Magic tour and it was magnificent. During the encore, Bruce introduced a guy I had never heard of: Alejandro Escovedo. Yeah, I’m a Texan but somehow, Escovedo’s name had escaped me. They played “Always a Friend” from Escovedo’s forthcoming CD, Real Animal . The song was good and, hey, if Bruce likes it, I’ll at leas

Music Review: Nicholas Hooper, “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”
Nicholas Hooper continues building on themes developed in “Order of the Phoenix,” reflecting the darker, more somber turn the series of books and films takes at this point in the saga of J.K. Rowling’s boy wizard.

Music Review – Rita Hosking – Come Sunrise (self released)
Rita Hosking might call Davis, CA home (18 km / 11 mi West of Sacramento) but the geographical and cultural influences that shape her excellent new release, Come Sunrise , could plot here anywhere between a rural West Texas roadhouse or the front porch of an Appalachian cabin. Recorded in Austin with producer, engineer and Robert Earl Keen guitarist, Rich Brotherton and featuring some of Austin’s best musicians – Lloyd Maines on Dobro, Glenn Fukunaga on upright bass, and Danny Barnes on banjo