Articles by Eric Thom

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  Jim Suhler & Monkey Beat

  Starvation Box: The Best of Jim Suhler & Monkey Beat

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Jim Suhler remains a best-kept secret, despite his status as guitarist for hire to George Thorogood’s Destroyers and Monkey Beat’s main mon...

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  Tab Benoit & Jimmy Thackery

  Whiskey Store Live

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Most live albums end up exposing the musical shortcomings of the artist and are generally to be regarded as little more than a timepiece. T...

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  John Campbelljohn

  Under The Blue Covers

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  When Cape Breton’s John Campbelljohn landed some studio downtime back in ’95, he decided to have some fun, resulting in this clear-minded c...

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  Quill Tolhurst

  So Rudely Interrupted

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  You know what it’s like. Music journalist turns rock star? That seems a bigger crime than actors becoming musicians or sports celebrities b...

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  Boobie Browne & The Onions

  Birth of the Chickenpick

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  This is, first and foremost, a guitar players’ record, for fans of highly animated guitar pickin’ — in all its forms. Clearly influenced by...

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  Carter Chaplin

  Don't Be So Evil

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  The depth of blues talent concentrated in Eastern Canada runs deep, as evidenced by this record that makes the connection between weatherin...

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  Adrian Legg

  Guitar Bones

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  There is a power to Adrian Legg’s playing that clearly distinguishes him from the countless acoustic maestros who follow the trail of the m...

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  J.B. Lenoir

  Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  What Martin Scorsese hasn’t done for the blues is probably the heart of the blues’ appeal in the first place. Its fans have always been end...