Meg Bowles – Evensong: Canticles for the Earth

Meg Bowles – Evensong: Canticles for the Earth

I discovered an album the other night, when I was moving some CDs around. When I first looked at it I thought -what’s this?  Oh it’s probably an advanced copy of a CD that I got to review. I guess I’ll give it a listen. But I bet it’s a vocal album that I really won’t like that much.(I have a tendency to not like new Age female (vocalists sorry ladies)  So I put it in the CD player and then smacked myself up the side of my head when what came out was not vocal,at all, but wonderful ambient music! Read More

New CDs From the Princeton Record Exchange – Yeah!

Testifyin" - One of my Treasures from Princeton Record Exchange

While we were raising four kids my wife and I rarely spent money on ourselves. So when it came time that two oldest boys started to buy CDs,  I was thrilled when we found Tunes Used CD store in Marlton,N.J. At the time they had bins and bins of  cheap used CDs. Thanks to the fact that my taste was slightly different than their typical clientele my CD collection skyrocketed. I found albums from a ton of Americana artists that I couldn’t find anywhere else, at prices I could afford!! Texas music artists like: Ray Wylie Hubbard, Jack Ingram and Pat Green along with Americana musicians like Jack Williams and Chris Knight. Read More

The Cage by Bob Holroyd – Let’s Everything In!

The Cage - Bob Holroyd

The Cage – Bob Holroyd -U.K. Multinstrumentalist

Sometimes an album just strikes the right chord with you! Such is the case with The Cage the new release from U.K. master sound manipulator and musical space-shaper Bob Holroyd. The first time I listened to the album, I knew it was for me. Subsequently it has been the soundtrack for my morning yoga and meditations. And every time  I listen to it I hear something new! Read More