Ben Marcato and his Mondo Combo have been making jazz, rhythm and blues, and cool jams for 20 years now. Here on this original work from 2012, Second To None, you get the full force of the instrumentals-all full of perfect jazz inflection and bluesy goodness-plus, at 3:46 or so, you get a minute and a half of Ben Marcato’s wonderful vocal. You can find a boat load of Ben Marcato tunes on his bandcamp.com site and it’s all worth every penny of…
Read MoreOnce in awhile you need a simple love song, and Wyatt Funderburk is here to fill that void with the up-beat, melodic, and radio-ready Love Will Lead The Way. If you say that there isn’t really anything new and different about Wyatt’s music here, well, you would be right. But still it’s a fine anthem to what the world needs a whole lot more of and it is very well done. Love is from the two-song single by the same name,…
Read MoreFrequent visitor to A Little More Vodka, Courtney Barnett, teams up with Hoodoo Guru’s Dave Faulkner for this fantastic cover of Died Pretty’s Everybody Moves. As always, hearing another song covered by Courtney left me wanting more, and who knows, by now, we may actually have Ms. Barnett’s new EP, How To Carve A Carrot Into A Rose, due out sometime in August. The combination of Barnett and Faulkner left me wondering if more duets are in Courtney’s future. It…
Read MoreRegular readers of this blog will recall seeing The Breedings posted here last year with the video / review for the 2010 release, Turn. Their new long-player, entitled Fayette was released August 2013, and the ballad Calm, seen here, is from that long-player. Erin and Willie (Breeding) make country music in the same vein as The Civil Wars or Flagship Romance. It has that country vibe, without much of the annoying (for me, anyway) twang. You can find more information on The Breedings by…
Read MoreWishing You The Best is from Campfire OK’s second long-player, the title track of which you heard here about 6 months ago or so. At that time, When You Have Arrived (the long-player) was still yet to be released. Fans are still waiting for the the long-player to be released, but the band has been doing a good job of generating pre-release interest through periodic posting of new videos. Listening to Wishing You The Best all the way through, you…
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