Buddy’s CD, ‘I Need An Angel’, is chock full of your straight-down-the-middle, Grand Ol’ Opry country music, a la Hank Williams George Jones. The CD is very well produced by Buddy, himself, along with Bobby G. Rice and Norm Herman.

David Amram, Southern Stories. David is a musician of many talents. He plays six or more instruments from piano to flutes. Song two; Dreams of New Orleans, to me, sounds quite similar to Glenn Frey’s Smuggler’s Blues, but with a bit more of a country flavor. Then there’s Once You’ve Been To Texas. In this …

Dirty Pictures is a Los Angeles based rockin’ blues band formed in 1996. Their 7 song CD is full of good ol’ rockin’ blues with fun lyrics. Members are: Drew Cobb, lead vocals, harmonica, and guitar; John Cross on bass; Paul Rosenthal, lead guitar and Michael Kramer on drums. These guys know their stuff and …

Hardcore music with, basically, death style vocals. Infuser, is a young band from Old Saybrook, Connecticut with much potential and far advanced for their years. You’d never guess they were still high school. Being a lover of the heavy stuff, you can be assured I liked what I heard on their tape and if they …

ROUND TRIP, John McEuen Live In L.A., is an excellent CD. Most songs written by John. Great Songs. Great Musician. This is John’s first live CD. John has been in the music business for many years and was in one of the hot bands of the 1960’s, The Dirt Band. They played with the likes …

Once again Republic/Universal Records has signed a terrific band. 3 Doors Down, (Brad Arnold, vocalist/drummer; guitarists, Chris Henderson and Matt Roberts, and bassist Todd Harrell) hail from Biloxi, Mississippi. Though bassist Harrell states, “It’s not really alternative or metal or anything — it’s rock ‘n’ roll”, I see it as heavy yet melodic, metal-edged alternative …

Members:Patrick DiPuccio – Vocals/Guitar/HarpMark McCormick – Bass/VocalsJay Nowac – Drums/Vocals “Tales of Drunkenness & Cruelty”, is a six-song CD with a mixture of styles. “Got No Reason”, has a great guitar groove that start off this CD. Song 2 – “I’m Not Sorry”; I feel could be the anthem for most ‘male’ musicians (at least …

Members:Tim Brown – Lead Vocals, guitarDave Brown – Lead Vocals, bassTroy Chavez – Lead guitar, vocalsTom Mills – Fiddle, MandolinMatt Emmons – Drums Tim, Dave and Troy put the band together (under another name) back in ’84 while still in high school. Over the years they have worked with and opened for many of country’s …

Members:Shannon Cronin – VocalsDavid Gordoni – BassMike Grassey – GuitarMike Stroughton – DrumsChris Parise – Keyboard Together since 1995 with only minor changes in members, this young band from Covina, California is beginning to make their mark. They have vowed to perform nearly every week in 2000 and will be playing a showcase in Las …

Garlin “Hack” Hackney started his band in his junior year in high school back in 1965. The band’s, “Everything’s Cool” CD took me back to the fifties. I was ready to bop and jitterbug at the Sock Hop. There was that Chuck Berry guitar and Jerry Lee Lewis piano — the roots of Rock ‘N’ …