The r&b and soul grooves of Raquel Rodriguez are phenomenal here on You’ve Got Me, from her latest EP The 310 (November 2016). Raquel’s vocals are smooth and easy, alternatively lilting and soaring. In this genre’ Raquel doesn’t exactly break new ground, but she takes the ground that was laid out before her by a multitude of artists and executes it flawlessly. You can find more on Raquel Rodriguez from her website, which includes a short bio and links to purchase the EP from a variety of sources, including her…
Read MoreHannah Gill & The Hours are ab-”soul”-utely top-notch! Austin (seen/heard here) just rocks! It’s full of Hannah Gill’s throaty Alto and a great band, which includes a horn section that just kicks ass! This is R&B Soul at its modern-day finest! If you aren’t blown away by Hannah Gill and company, then you are not on this planet. Holy Cow! Austin is the opening track for the 5-song EP, The Water (May 2016), which you should go out and buy immediately! Austin is no one-off hit either. The Water is an…
Read MoreOne part progressive, one part jazz-rock, one part garage, one part soul and mix. Out comes King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, a very prolific Australian band (Eight LPs since 2011). Professing to be a garage band, but they are really much more than that. This band is as much like Phish as anything else. Each track on their releases sounds like a live to tape copy. In other words, as close to being like a live performance as possible. Here on The River from…
Read MoreIf you can’t rock out to Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, then there is something absolutely wrong with you. S.O.B. is delightfully irreverent, raucous, energetic and fun, and it is from the band’s self-titled debut long-player (August, 2015). This song reaches into your soul and exposes the real you. The remainder of the long-player is a study in the rich, soulful, bluesy and raw, each song rife with emotion. Truth be told, lead man in this troop Nathaniel…
Read MoreA few weeks back, Vodka featured Violette and All My Life, from her latest long-player, Falling Strong (February 2015). Here, again, is Violette from that same long-player with the title-track, joined by Louis Cato, best known as a multi-instrumentalist, but proving here that he also has great soul vocal chops of his own. If you have not as yet checked out Violette, get over to her web site now! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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