-HOUR ONE-
MIKE FRANK and FRIENDS - $1000 (2015 a Doorway Beyond)
Hard to go wrong with a Hammond B3 and a 1971 Neve console.
AJ GHENT BAND – Keep on Working > Keep on Working
Jam (2015 Live at Terminal West CD/DVD)
Sacred steel, laying it on thick and groovy.
ALABAMA SHAKES – Don’t Wanna Fight
Not afraid to experiment with the “sound” of their second
album.
PIMPS of JOYTIME – Dank Janky
Brooklyn-based garage funk with some great guests, including
Ivan Neville.
STORMING the BEACHES with LOGOS in HAND – Gorillas in the
Sky (2015 Southwick Howls)
Two years in the making, this album does Santa Fe proud.
BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR – Sweet Madelene >
Slipstream (2015 Space Is Still the
Place)
This Austin band works the atmospheric aesthetic better than
most.
-HOUR TWO-
UMPHREY’S McGEE – I Want You [She’s So Heavy] (2015 the London Session)
Recorded at the legendary Abbey Road studios in London. Great cover of a great song.
MY MORNING JACKET – Only Memories Remain (2015 the Waterfall)
Still kings of the ethereal, and banking on it heavily this
time around.
DAWES – Things Happen
(2015 All Your Favorite Bands)
This album sounds more “plugged in” than earlier efforts, to
their benefit.
DREW HOLCOMB and the NEIGHBORS – Avalanche (2015 Medicine)
Folky singer-songwriterism that is neither too sparse nor
too jangly.
CHRIS STAPLETON – Might As Well Get Stoned (2015 Traveller)
This “country” artist is way too cool to be heard on many
country stations.
GOV’T MULE w/ JOHN SCOFIELD and MIKE BARNES – Afro Blue (2015 Sco-Mule, 9/23/99 the Roxy, Atlanta,
GA)
Excellent archival release.
That it went unreleased for so many years is a tragedy. Haynes and Scofield doing what they do best:
ripping it up.
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