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Lew Jetton & 61 South Love the 'Rain' on New Coffee Street Records Prog-Blues CD [REVIEW]

Lew Jetton & 61 South's third effort, 'Rain' (Coffee Street), fulfills the promise of 'State Line Blues' and 'Tales From A 2 Lane,' for it is here where Jetton really puts it all together on eight originals and two covers-John Hiatt's "Feels Like Rain" and Allen Toussaint's "It's Raining." The band is sterling, aided and abetted by seasoned pros but held together by Jetton himself, an engaging singer/songwriter who takes from the blues tradition yet adds immeasurably his own thing.
By Mike Greenblatt

  • Blogarrhea: Songwriter Hall of Famer Chip Taylor Releases Two New Homespun Folksy CDs

    On June 9, in New York City, the Songwriters Hall of Fame inducted Chip Taylor, 76, the outlaw country singer who, like Willie Nelson, rejected Nashville's strict 1970s conformity. Unlike Willie, though, who packed up and moved to Austin, Taylor packed up and quit the music business entirely in 1980 to become a professional gambler. The brother of actor Jon Voight and volcanologist Barry Voight certainly wasn't going to listen to anybody tell him how to make his music.
    By Mike Greenblatt

  • Guitarist/Composer Eric Krasno Pulls 'Blood From A Stone' by Singing, FMG [REVIEW]

    Eric Krasno's 'Blood From A Stone' (Feel Music Group) rocks righteously on its merry way through funky blues, R'n'B, Americana and what you might call Instant Classic Rock. It's a collaborative effort between he and his main man Dave Gutter who holed up in Gutter's Maine barn to write, record and listen to The Bobby Blue Bland Blues Band's 1974 'Dreamer' and the controversial-in-'68 'Electric Mud' by Muddy Waters.
    By Mike Greenblatt
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