Monthly Archives: December 2001

Jack is a unique figure. He plays bass with the Nashville String Machine, a group of studio musicians who have played with everyone from Donna Summer to Deana Carter to the Beach Boys. But in this incarnation, he’s a brilliant nylon-stringed guitarist who concentrates on jazz. This CD features some great originals mixed in with [...]

Scott Holt isn’t exactly a newcomer to the music buzz. He served in Buddy Guy’s band for 10 years and, not surprisingly, calls it a “…trip to the university.” That schooling has definitely paid off with Angels in Exile. Scott covers a lot of territory musically on the record, but it’s always rooted in the [...]

Dave Hole’s new album is a firebreathing slide extravaganza. Armed with a ’72 Gibson ES-345, Hole returns to his fat, bluesy guitar tone. Backed by bass, keyboards and drums, Hole sings lead on all the tunes and does a fine job. “Jenny Lee” starts things rolling with his literally over-the-top slide technique that favors Rory [...]

A truly unique figure in American folk music, the late Rev. Gary Davis was a blind Baptist preacher from South Carolina who sang on the streets of Harlem. He didn’t make his first recordings until he was 39, and didn’t enjoy widespread acclaim until being discovered by the folk crowd in his ’60s. He lent [...]

Imagine young Athel “Doc” Watson taking his first long bus ride up from Tennessee, stepping off a Greyhound into the teeming clamor of NYC’s Port Authority terminal. Well, that’s how it happened when the blind Southerner arrived in Manhattan to play a four-week solo gig at a place called Gerde’s Folk City. It was his [...]