Articles by Eric Thom

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  Audreys

  Between Last Night and Us

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Bewitching and beguiling. And that’s just their vocalist! Rumour has it this band are pegged as a variance on our own Cowboy Junkies — but...

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  Trouble & Strife

  Trouble & Strife

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  This hard-working, Orangeville, ON-based band play a polished form of blues-based pub rock that proves we all need to get out more. This is...

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  Summer & the Sinners

  Boogie with the Devil

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Hailing from Vancouver Island, Summer Hay helms a gutsy, guitar-heavy brand of blues rock with a five-alarm voice that is equal parts power...

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  Gary Moore

  Old New Ballads Blues

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Gary Moore has had anything but a consistent career but this is his best album since 1990’s Still Got the Blues. From stints in Skid Row, T...

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  Sproll

  Soft Science

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Atlantic Canada has long been a multi-genre, musical hotbed of talent and, in a blind taste test you’d swear this 26-minute, six-song relea...

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  Various

  Maximum Cowbell

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Is there a tribute idea that hasn’t been exhausted in these lean times of compilation creativity? Not any more — all hail the mighty cowbel...

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  Various

  Sail Away: The Songs of Randy Newman

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Few artists are as deserving of a retrospective of their musical contribution as Randy Newman. The consummate singer-songwriter’s canon mar...

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  Lydia Pense & Cold Blood

  Transfusion

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Way back before white people dared be hip, Cold Blood combined rock, R&B, funk, a dash of psychedelia and — together with one fireball of a...