Monday, December 29, 2025

The Reverend's Favorite Reissues & Archival Albums of 2025

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As a child of the '70s, although my musical tastes didn't calcify after the decade like so many of my contemporaries, the exciting a...
Friday, December 26, 2025

The Reverend's Favorite New Albums of 2025

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Much like the swallows return to Capistrano, each year I check out the various "best of" album lists in different publication...
Monday, December 22, 2025

Nashville Cats: Richie Owens & Steve Boyd (2025)

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Back in 1966, the Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian sang “there’s thirteen hundred and fifty-two guitar pickers in Nashville” later adding “a...
Friday, December 19, 2025

Jersey Beat Archives: The Busted Lives, The Evoka Project, Fear of Fred, Goodbye Girl Friday, High Beams, The Microphones, The Mountain Goats & Nakatomi Plaza (February 2003)

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For several years in the early 2000s, the Reverend contributed CD reviews to Jersey Beat music zine. It was a heck of a lot of fun, with JB ...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Archive Review: Delta Moon’s Clear Blue Flame (2007)

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Many music fans may remember Tom Gray’s name from his early ‘80s band the Brains. Down South, ‘round the Nashville-Atlanta-Birmingham triang...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Jersey Beat Archives: Audio Learning Center, Pole Position, World Inferno Friendship Society, "Down In Front" (March 2002)

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March 2002 For several years in the early 2000s, the Reverend contributed CD reviews to Jersey Beat music zine. It was a heck of a lot of f...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Archive Review: Delta Moon’s Black Cat Oil (2012)

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Over the past decade and half a dozen albums, Atlanta-based roots ‘n’ blues outfit Delta Moon has quietly made a name for itself as a sturd...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Jersey Beat Archives: Black Cat Music, Munition, Saturday Supercade, Winepress (February 2002)

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February 2002 For several years in the early 2000s, the Reverend contributed CD reviews to Jersey Beat music zine. It was a heck of a lot o...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Archive Review: Dave Specter’s Spectified (2010)

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Chicago blues guitarist Dave Specter has flown under the radar for much of his considerable career. Mentored by Sunnyland Slim’s great guit...