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Sweetwater Abilene, The Giant Ate The Rainbow (08/14/07) "Imagine if John Steinbeck hadn't grown up to be a novelist and instead spent his time in a garage listening to a steady diet of CCR, Neil Young, Jonathan Richman and Gang of Four while practicing on a dusty Harmony Strat-O-Tone. He probably would have started a band that sounds something like Sweetwater Abilene. Lead singer and guitarist J.R. Top crafts songs about rural heartbreak and Midwest ennui all the while delivering them with vocals that range from syrup smooth to stridently raccous. SWA has made a name for itself as a rocking three piece that delivers every time. This is a band that knows where it's been and has an eye for where it is going." $10.00 |
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Bockman, Chasing Dragons (05/01/07) "Bockman’s debut release "Chasing Dragons" presents a band that has come into their own musically and embraced a sound that is truely unique. Melodies that hang around like the last throws of a dying season and harmonies that remind us of better things to come are like paint on a canvas of thick instrumentation-- guitars and keyboards are stretched taut on a solid frame of drums and bass. Pyschedelic prog-pop this good can only be expected to surface every thirty years or so. Their coming was foretold long ago... BOCKMAN await their destiny." $10.00 |
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The Doxies, In Search of... (10/10/06) "In Search of... the latest studio release from Columbia, Missouri's The Doxies has 11 rich tracks based on solid cornerstones of altcountry, vintage garage rock, and British Invasion era, Kinks-style Brit Pop. The album features hook laden songs with catchy melodies and lush harmonies. These wonderful pop sensibilities are juxtaposed by head nodding scorchers with enough guitar riffs and licks to milk a goat." $10.00 |
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Various Artists, Das Kompilation (9/25/06) "Das Kompilation is a party album featuring some of Columbia, Missouri's most entertaining bands. This is an upbeat album made for foot tappin', head bobbin', and ass clappin'. Check out some of these bands: Shirell C. Limes and the Lemons, SSLYBY, foundry field recordings, Bockman, Kim Chi, Witch's Hat, Mark Speckman, Monte Carlos, The Doxies, Ellie Come Home, Bald Eagle, Jerusalem and the Starbaskets, Bum with a Dog, and more." $10.00 |
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Various Artists, Million Dollar Bash: Missouri salutes Bob Dylan (8/25/06) "This double disc contains 38 classic and obscure Bob Dylan songs artfully rendered by some of Missouri's best musical talent. Some of the artistic highlights include: "Mr. Tamborine Man" (The Confident Years), "License to Kill" (The Doxies w/ Henry Clay), "Make You Feel My Love" (Hillary Scott), "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" (Joe Stickley's Blueprint), "Wallflower" (Ironweed), "Tonight I'll be Staying Here With You" (Bockman), "The Mighty Quinn" (Witch's Hat), "From a Buick 6" (Mark Bilyeu w/ Cary Hudson), and "I'll be your Baby Tonight" (Lizzie West and the White Buffalo). The eclectic mix of musical styles and genres provide for a very interesting listen." $20.00 |
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The Doxies, Weight of Gold (5/31/05)
"The Doxies discover a new sense of purpose and confidence on Weight of Gold. At times the band molds their unified voice into a raucous scream; at others they lull it to a mesmerizing whisper. The end result is an album that becomes both lucid and other worldly. Like a distant and long forgotten radio broadcast, The Doxies’ Weight of Gold is an invitation to a place you haven’t been in awhile." $10.00 |
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The Doxies, Tinderbox Tragedy (5/15/03) "This is the true sound of young people making Americana music, and it has the brashness and brightness of youth and also manages to pull in traditional forms. True it’s more in the vein of Slobberbone then Hank Williams, but, there’s plenty of Uncle Tupelo’ too: ‘Clouded by the Bottle’ and ‘Carry Me Home’ find a bridge between Gram and Tupelo and present as good a pair of dusty, flannel shirted indie-country songs as you can get. There are guitars everywhere; ‘High Road’ opens with a swaggering drum beat and guitars that’ll chop your firewood for you." --David Cowling, Americana UK $10.00 |
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The Doxies, Tractor Crash (3/15/02) "Columbia, MO's Doxies are hard-livin', hard-tourin', hard-drinkin' fellers in the vein of Uncle Tupelo, Whiskeytown, The Old 97's. So what sets 'em apart? It must be the fact that they haven't gone acoustic yet and fucked it all up. That's right, sometimes it's just nice to crank up your box and hear some down-and-dirty, crunchy-as-crust country rock, and these boys deliver."--Tom Hallett, Pulse of the Twin Cities $10.00 |