Artist: Jimmy Lafave
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #70 July-August 2007
Jimmy Lafave – Cimarron Manifesto
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 LaFave has done a lot of quiet, sensitive and pretty songs. For a guy who [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #56 March-April 2005
Jimmy Lafave – Hard-core troubadour
“I’ve kind of rambled around every corner of America, and I still love doing it.…I live on the road a lot, and observe a lot, and that’s what I like to write about. I want that to be my songwriting legacy.” Jimmy LaFave Of the many traditions ingrained in America, few have had greater sustenance [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Jimmy Lafave – Black Sheep Inn (Wakefield, Quebec)
At 60 people, it wasn’t exactly standing room only (but then it was a Tuesday night). The Black Sheep Inn is a good half-hour drive from Ottawa into the Gatineau Hills. It was do or die in the Ottawa Senators’ run for hockey glory (they died). And snug as we were, Jimmy LaFave’s choice of [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #33 May-June 2001
Jimmy Lafave – Texoma
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 Away Renee” and Dylan’s “Sweetheart Like You”. Through his five previous albums, LaFave has had [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #23 Sept-Oct 1999
Flatlanders – Central Park Summerstage (New York City, NY)
It’s too easy to say it was Texas-hot on a day when New York City hosted a mini-Flatlanders reunion. Still, it was pretty damn hot — enough that you could watch an older gentleman in a kid-sized cowboy hat attempting some sort of rhythmless flamenco dance and think “He must be crazy from the heat” [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #21 May-June 1999
Jimmy Lafave – Trail
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 feel, with noticeable tape hiss throughout most of it, but when an artist as unpretentious [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #8 March-April 1997
Jimmy LaFave – Road Novel
When I saw Jimmy LaFave had named his latest disc Road Novel, my hope was he’d had some sort of literary breakthrough. After all, LaFave’s got a voice that could melt Fargo in February, but lyrics have never been his strong suit. Unfortunately, Road Novel is another volume of songs rife with clichés, both lyrically [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #1 Fall 1995
Jimmy Lafave – Buffalo Return to the Plains
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 put on the brakes. Fortunately, he’s learned better and better over the years to rein [...]
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