You could easily go insane for Taylor James’ cool little gems-of-tunes, masterful singing and tight danceable productions on his new album, Insane.

Alien Country’s Like My Life Depends On It is best when it rocks, and rock it does after lifting from some country stabs at the beginning half of the album.

Brooklyn, New York artist, Vocaliz gives us his observations about life and how he sees it on his Afrikan in New York. Born and raised in Cameroon, in Central Africa, here is an certainly balancing between two musical worlds: Hip Hop classics of the 90s and African/Cameroonian music.

The huge Yes: The Steven Wilson Remixes collection spotlights the super prog group’s early to mid-70’s albums: The Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge, Tales From Topographic Oceans and Relayer.

“Sugar Stick,” the last tune of these eleven, is the obvious single, though most of song on Dark Country Voodoo are commercial country roots rock stuff (in a very good way). But the straight ahead beat and Bury’s slamming guitar rattles round Webb at her most enticing. Once again the players place Martin’s violin in just the right spot and this last tune, more than any other I feel, impresses the listener to how unique Diamonds and Whiskey are.

It’s the tunes with drums here that I take to best and also see Eric exploring his fine voice to its very best. “High to Low,” one of these, a later tune on Of All These Things, is probably the best for me here.

Really, there isn’t a bad tune in this bunch, the songwriting is masterful, lyrics sublime and the musicianship a high water mark to be sure. Gideon King & City Blog’s Upscale Madhouse is a cool New York record, that pulls out all the stops.

As he chronicled in his 2013 book memoir Americana: The Kinks, the Riff, the Road: The Story, sang about in 2017’s Americana, Kink front man Ray Davies continues the story of America and its influence on his life an dcareer, on his latest solo releas,e Our Country: Americana Act 2.

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