What can one reasonably expect from a swashbuckling British expatriate neo-folkie who borrows his stage name from a Dylan record, covers the esteemed work of everyone from Madonna to Nic Jones and, in fact, predicted the late 20th-century reformation of the Fab Four long before technology and unbridled capitalism brought The Beatles Anthology to a [...]

The second full-length CD from San Francisco band the Westerleys is a wonderfully eclectic and surprisingly cohesive mish-mash of folk, country, bluegrass, and rootsy pop. Anchored since 1993 by the singer-songwriter duo of Doug Blumer and Nancy Terzian, plus bassist Rob McCloskey, the Westerleys are a legitimate triple threat. Blumer and Terzian are an excellent [...]

On his latest offering, Boston’s Todd Thibaud steps beyond the folksy acoustic roots he established with the Courage Brothers to deliver a solid, muscular with tight arrangements, swirling guitar-hook choruses, and lyrics that ring with equal doses of vigilance, attitude and remorse. Sonically speaking, Thibaud’s territory is somewhere in the “electro-melodic-jangly-guitar-pop” range reminiscent of Tom [...]