Tom’s ancestral and musical triptych finally reaches fruition – Tá sé iontach, tá sé go hálainn More decades ago than he’d probably care to be reminded, Thomas George Russell graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a […]
Tom’s ancestral and musical triptych finally reaches fruition – Tá sé iontach, tá sé go hálainn More decades ago than he’d probably care to be reminded, Thomas George Russell graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a […]
Perhaps the most relevant question asked by Jimmy LaFave on Cimarron Manifesto is: “Whatever happened to Johnny B. Goode?” Except for a couple of tracks, this is LaFave’s quietest, prettiest, most sensitive record — and that’s saying a lot, as […]
At his best, Jimmy LaFave sounds like the heart of a Saturday night. One imagines him performing in a Midwestern bar, using that ruggedly windswept, burnished voice to hush the din with surprisingly revelatory versions of ballads such as “Walk […]
Thirty songs on two discs, twelve of them Dylan covers. Trail is a raw career retrospective, collecting soundboard recordings, favorites from live shows and unreleased takes from who knows where over a span of about 20 years. There’s a cut-and-paste […]
When I saw Jimmy LaFave had named his latest disc Road Novel, my hope was hed had some sort of literary breakthrough. After all, LaFaves got a voice that could melt Fargo in February, but lyrics have never been his […]
Jimmy LaFave’s success as an artist clearly rises and falls on the strength of his voice. A powerful, slightly grainy instrument, it’s capable of driving home heartfelt emotions forcefully but also can overflow into histrionic melodrama when LaFave fails to […]
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