Pretty Good Not Bad is a demo of a custom Wordpress theme called "Rustic Arcana", built by Ross Koeberl and designed to be used for a music blog. The theme was designed to emulate the print style and [...]

I cannot say enough about Billy Wallace's piano playing here. It is hard to believe he laid down a performance this good and then had roughly five more credits for the rest of his career. It's a fascinating [...]

If you don't know who Labi Siffre is, there's still a decent chance that you've heard one of his melodies. He provided the immortal keyboard lick that introduced the world to Slim Shady. Kanye took [...]

I heard a country band do a killer rendition of “Amarillo by Morning” last weekend. Got all the old folks on the dance floor, and put a damn tear in my eye. In that moment, it even gave “Wichita [...]

Much has been said of blood harmony, that blend of voices bound by blood relation, and plenty of groups have made a name on it. Many such groups have also been associated with internal tension and [...]

"Persona Grata" is an amazing opening track, a true 80's epic that sounds like it could have been an outtake from Kate Bush's The Dreaming. Powerful and absurd proclamations of love ("I'm your whipping [...]