The Gobblers Knob

I’m not the first guy to write about newcomer Lissie (Myspace). I am cool with that, since her new EP, Why You Runnin’ (Fat Possum) is really good. It’s hard to place her in a specific, nice and neat genre. There’s a bit of folk, there’s some rock, there’s a thumpin’ stand-up bass and it’s [...]

I love it when a record that is allegedly a “side-project” is just as – if not more - enjoyable as the project that is technically an artists bread and butter gig. We’ve seen that recently with any number of Jack White’s non-White Stripes endeavours, as well as the new Felice Brothers off-shoot, The Duke and The [...]

Sometimes, I see something in my inbox and I just know I need to get it out. I did that a while back with Allen Thompson. I had only heard one of the songs from Thompson’s stellar CD, 26 years, when I knew I wanted to tell all of you about him. Instead of waiting for what [...]

Man, there have been a ton of great records released this year that can be placed into the relatively ambiguous class of “modern folk” or “acoustic pop”, or whatever. We have seen the records from The Low Anthem, Langhorne Slim, The Swell Season and A.A. Bondy, among others, already considered to be among many peoples favorite [...]

Ronnie Fauss (Official / Myspace), from right here in Dallas has just released a few more songs. Many other blogs, including myself, really liked Fauss’s EP, New Songs For the Old Frontier – Vol I. While he hasn’t busted out with Vol. II just yet, Fauss has released a “mini-EP” on I-tunes and it is just as [...]