Music writing: 2020

current articles

Dege Legg Publishes Non-Fiction Book: ‘Cablog: Diary of a Cabdriver’
American Blues Scene / interview

Rachel Brooke - The Loneliness In Me
No Depression / album review

Desolation Horse - Desolation Horse
Northern Transmissions / album review

Various artists - A Gulf Coast Christmas
Blues Rock Review / album review

Albumism’s Writers Select Their 10 Favorite Albums of 2020
Albumism / album review

Scott H. Biram - Fever Dreams
American Blues Scene / album review

Nilüfer Yanya - Feeling Lucky
Northern Transmissions / album review

Carly Johnson - Carly Johnson
American Blues Scene / album review

Larkin Poe - Kindred Spirits
Blues Rock Review / album review

Mike Cambell/The Dirty Knobs - Wreckless Abandon
Glide Magazine / album review

Digawolf - High Arctic
Northern Transmissions / album review

Casey James - If You Don’t Know By Now
Blues Rock Review / album review

“Bartees Strange Is Hitting His Stride”
Northern Transmissions / profile

“Shemekia Copeland Interview: The Blues is Roots”
Blues Rock Review / interview

“The Perks of Being Present: A Conversation with P.J. O’Connor”
Albumism / interview

P.J. O’Connor - Television’s Golden Age
Albumism / album review

JD3 and the Jondo Trio - Something Good
Blues Rock Review / album review

New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers - Vol. 1
Blues Rock Review / album review

The Slow Readers Club - 91 Days In Isolation
Northern Transmissions / album review

Dex Wolfe - Lightness
Northern Transmissions / album review

Churchwood - Plenty to Go Awry
American Blues Scene / album review

Jeremiah Johnson - Unemployed Highly Annoyed
Blues Rock Review / album review

Talking ‘100 Years of Blues’ With Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite
American Blues Scene / interview

Bette Smith - The Good, The Bad, and The Bette
Blues Rock Review / album review

Brothers Osborne - Skeletons
No Depression / album review

Shemekia Copeland - Uncivil War
Blues Rock Review / album review

Talking ‘Below Sea Level’ Deep With Eric Johanson
American Blues Scene / interview

ultrviolence Finds Himself In A Good Spot
Northern Transmissions / profile

Bette Smith Interview: A Blues Grows in Brooklyn
Blues Rock Review / interview

Bob Mould - Blue Hearts
Albumism / album review

Bart Ryan - Starlight & Tall Tales
Blues Rock Review / album review

Future Islands - As Long As You Are
Northern Transmissions / album review

Bobby Rush Interview: Still Rawer than Raw
Blues Rock Review / interview

Brennen Leigh - Prairie Love Letter
No Depression / album review

Kirk Fletcher - My Blues Pathway
Blues Rock Review / album review

Sugaray Rayford: The Year That Should Have Been
American Blues Scene / profile

Go Midwest, Young Man: A Conversation with Arlo McKinley
Albumism / interview

Joe Bonamassa Talks About His Latest Projects – ‘Royal Tea’ and ‘A New Day Now’
American Blues Scene / interview

Walter Trout - Ordinary Madness
American Blues Scene / album review

Bethany Thomas - BT/She/Her
Blues Rock Review / album review

Arlo McKinley - Die Midwestern
Albumism / album review

John Fusco - John The Revelator
Blues Rock Review / album review

Wily Bo Walker: The Mayor of Voodooville Brings Beauty Out of Pandemic
American Blues Scene / interview

Cary Morin - Dockside Saints
No Depression / album review

Lynne Jackaman - One Shot
Blues Rock Review / album review

Wily Bo Walker and Danny Flam - Ain’t No Man a Good Man
American Blues Scene / album review

Laura Cortese and the Dance Cards - Bitter Better
No Depression / album review

Too Slim and the Taildraggers - The Remedy
American Blues Scene / album review

S.G. Goodman - Old Time Feeling
Albumism / album review

The Danberrys - Shine
Albumism / album review

Michot’s Melody Makers - Cosmic Cajuns from Saturn
American Blues Scene / album review

Savoy Brown - Ain’t Done Yet
Blues Rock Review / album review

Victor Wainright - Memphis Loud
Blues Rock Review / album review

Jackie Hayes - Take It, Leave It
Northern Transmissions / album review

Hurricane Ruth - Good Life
American Blues Scene / album review

Soko - Feel Feelings
Northern Transmissions / album review

Michael Mills Band - Stand Up
American Blues Scene / album review

Grand Pax - PWR
Northern Transmissions / album review

“Top 10 Stevie Ray Vaughan Songs”
Blues Rock Review / album list

Japandroids - Massey F@$king Hall
Albumism / album review

Country Westerns - Country Westerns
Albumism / album review

Shawn Pittman - Make It Right
American Blues Scene / album review

Bananagun - The True Story of Bananagun
Northern Transmissions / album review

Kristen Grainger & True North - Ghost Tattoo
American Blues Scene / album review

Johnny Burgin - No Border Blues
Blues Rock Review / album review

Christian Lee Hutson - Beginners
Northern Transmissions / album review

Larkin Poe - Self Made Man
Blues Rock Review / album review

Harmed Brothers - Across the Waves
Albumism / album review

LA Priest - GENE
Northern Transmissions / album review

Gerald McClendon - Can’t Nobody Stop Me Now
American Blues Scene / album review

The Record Company - Early Songs & Rarities
American Blues Scene / album review

Eddie 9V - Way Down The Alley (Live at Blind Willie’s)
American Blues Scene / album review

Stephen Dale Petit - 2020 Visions
Blues Rock Review / album review

Teddy Thompson - Heartbreaker Please
Albumism / album review

The Memories - Pickles & Pies
Northern Transmissions / album review

Dirty Clergy - In Waves
Albumism / album review

Goldman Thibodeaux and the Lawtell Playboys - La Danse à St. Ann’s
American Blues Scene / album review

Dion - Blues With Friends
Blues Rock Review / album review

Owen Pallett - Island
Northern Transmissions / album review

Jamie Williams and the Roots Collective - Do What You Love
American Blues Scene / album review

Gina Sicilia - Love Me Madly
American Blues Scene / album review

Mark Lanegan - Straight Songs of Sorrow
Glide Magazine / album review

Grant Dermody - My Dony
American Blues Scene / album review

Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter
Albumism / album review

Wayne Nicholson and John Campbelljohn - Elmore’s Blues
American Blues Scene / album review

Man Man - Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between
Northern Transmissions / album review

Claudettes - High Times in the Dark
Blues Rock Review / album review

Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire
Northern Transmissions / album review

Eliza Neals - Black Crow Moan
Blues Rock Review / album review

“100 Greatest Soundtracks of All Time”
Albumism / album list

Surf Rock is Dead - Existential Playboy
Albumism / album review

Heather Anne Lomax - All This Time
Glide Magazine / album review

John Primer & Bob Corritore - The Gypsy Woman Told Me
American Blues Scene / album review

Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open
Northern Transmissions / album review

Steepwater Band - Turn The Wheel
Blues Rock Review / album review

The Reverend Shawn Amos - Blue Sky
American Blues Scene / album review

The Proven Ones - You Ain’t Done
American Blues Scene / album review

Anna Burch - If You’re Dreaming
Northern Transmissions / album review

Albert Castiglia - Wild and Free
Blues Rock Review / album review

Crystal Shawanda - Church House Blues
American Blues Scene / album review

The Dream Syndicate - The Universe Inside
Northern Transmissions / album review

Mike Zito - Quarantine Blues
Blues Rock Review / album review

Mark Erelli - Blindsided
Glide Magazine / album review

Tesla - Five Man London Jam
Glide Magazine / album review

Backtrack Blues Band - Your Baby Has Left
American Blues Scene / album review

Little Dragon - New Me, Same Us
Northern Transmissions / album review

Sleep Eazys - Easy To Buy, Hard To Sell
Blues Rock Review / album review

Tennessee Redemption - Tennessee Redemption
Heard Lately / album review

Mike Mattison - Afterglow
American Blues Scene / album review

King Solomon Hicks - Harlem
American Blues Scene / album review

Sonny Landreth - Blacktop Run
Blues Rock Review / album review

Porridge Radio - Every Bad
Northern Transmission / album review

Ben Rice and RB Stone - Out of the Box
Blues Rock Review / album review

Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
Albumism / album review

Ozzy Osbourne - Ordinary Man
Glide Magazine / album review

Kyshona - Listen
Albumism / album review

Will Sexton - Don’t Walk in Darkness
American Blues Scene / album review

Anna Calvi - Hunted
Northern Transmissions / album review

Sean Pinchin - Bad Things
Heard Lately / album review

Rory Gallagher - Check Shirt Wizard - Live in 77
Blues Rock Review / album review

U.S Girls - Heavy Light
Northern Transmissions / album review

Robert Vincent - In This Town You’re Owned
Glide magazine / album review

Tennis - Swimmer
Northern Transmissions / album review

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band - Poor Until Payday
Heard Lately / album review

Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado - Come On In
Blues Rock Review / album review

Van Halen’s Balance Hinted at a Return to Heavier Music That Never Happened
Consequence of Sound / album retrospective

Dustbowl Revival - Is It You, Is It Me
No Depression / album review

Tame Imapala - Slow Rush
Northern Transmissions / album review

Tinsley Ellis - Ice Cream in Hell
Blues Rock Review / album review

Cadillac Three - Country Fuzz
Glide magazine / album review

Tom “The Suit” Forst - World of Broken Hearts
American Blues Scene / album review

Jeremiah Johnson - Heavens To Betsy
Blues Rock Review / album review

Frank Bey - All My Dues Are Paid
American Blues Scene / album review

G. Love - The Juice
Glide magazine / album review

Marcus King - El Dorado
Blues Rock Review / album review

of Montreal - UR Fun
Northern Transmissions / album review

Tokyo Tramps - If I Die Tomorrow
Heard Lately / album review

Adobe Collective - All the Space That There Is
Albumism / album review

Russ Tolman - Goodbye El Dorado
Heard Lately / album review

11 Guys Quartet - Small Blues and Grooves
American Blues Scene / album review

Wily Bo Walker and Ed Brayshaw - The Roads We Ride
Heard Lately / album review

Tomislav Goluban - Memphis Light
American Blues Scene / album review