All reviews by banana

Airplay Airplay

Vermont AOR dork rock supreme. Like the kind of band you could only hope to be playing at your local roller rink after the disco crowd had moved out. Has to be heard.
She’s Just a Memory

AMERICA - The Golden Eagle Band AMERICA - The Golden Eagle Band

Maybe I should have saved this post for the fourth of July. But as I write this, I feel as patriotic as ever (in a retrospective, founding fathers kind of way) listening to this Middle School band (orchestra) pile drive through the great works of American composers and marching band standards. I originally […]

Bernie, Bill, and Charlie Bernie, Bill, and Charlie

Easily one of my best scores this year were two cassettes by this homegrown basement folk trio out of Peekskill, NY. I met Bernie while hiking the Appalachian Trail this summer, at the Greymoor Monastery for Franciscan Monks. He was painting the shelter they provide there for hikers when I walked up. […]

Casanova Jack and the Stardusters Casanova Jack and the Stardusters

River rafting private press country lounge band from Stanley, Idaho. Cover is one of my faves. Band picture is a stunner too.

Clem Hutchins - White Cloud Clem Hutchins - White Cloud

Fantastic outsider country dig from Louisiana or Texas. I can’t remember. Clem sounds like a combination between Old Man Death and an ancient Indian Shaman. He has Moondog-like percussion rumbling under a strumming guitar as he belts out a weird ode to the afterlife all in mystical metaphors. Unearthly wild stuff. […]

Dottie Jein - From My Heart to Yours Dottie Jein - From My Heart to Yours

File under ‘Female Bar Fighters’.
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Edna Mae Henning Edna Mae Henning

Welcome to the magical world of Edna Mae Henning. A very special country singer from rural Pennsylvania. She is in many ways what I had always dreamed of in an older woman singing good ol’ fashioned country music. She has a way of capturing the soul of what is truly wonderful about […]

Eskimo's Eskimo’s

Frozen tundra garage 45 that is totally inept and wonderful. I should really post all the songs, but I only have “Mr. Twist” digitized. Anybody know of any other releases from the “Kajak” label? The vocals are out of control, and I think in English ? maybe ? “Ah Meester Tweeest Ya […]

Love God's Way Love God’s Way

Huh!?

Ronald et Ronald Ronald et Ronald

Leave it to the French to produce quite possibly the single most annoying children’s 7″. EVER. I dare you to listen to these two songs. In their entirety. Is it a voice? Are they robotic chickens? How are they singing about a Pussycat? WHAT THE FUCK?
Couac Couac
Pussycat

Ronnie Anderson - The Generation Gap Ronnie Anderson - The Generation Gap

This rules!! Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t detect a shred of humor here. I think, this is dead serious. In any case, I know the readers here, myself included deal with alot of these problems on a regular basis, and will find this song (?) PSA (?) funeral march […]