Articles by Kerry Doole

Colleen Brown

Direction

PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2015

Is Colleen Brown too stylistically diverse for her own good? That may be one reason why this extremely talented Edmonton-based singer/songw...

Tom Wilson Pays Homage to Hamilton's Musical History with New Mural

PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2015

Tom Wilson has long been a passionate advocate for Hamilton and its music scene. As leader of the Florida Razors, then '90s Canadian rock f...

Steve Earle and the Dukes

Terraplane

PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2015

Steve Earle's 16th studio record, Terraplane, is being widely publicized as his divorce album; while divorce is not a new concept to Earle,...

Steve Earle's Deep Dive

'Terraplane' Marks First Serious Blues Foray

PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2015

It is hard to imagine a singer/songwriter with a more stylistically diverse discography than Steve Earle. He has put out bluegrass, rock 'n...

Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar

Send the Nightingale

PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2015

It has taken Samantha Martin a little while to find the right musical vehicle for her astonishingly powerful, force-of-nature voice. She ha...

Michael Jerome Browne

Sliding Delta

PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2015

Michael Jerome Browne is a multiple Canadian Folk Music and Maple Blues Awards winner and three-time Juno nominee. Prior to launching an ac...

Cracker / Camper Van Beethoven

Lee's Palace, Toronto ON, January 15

PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2015

Considering that David Lowery's bands Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker enjoyed their commercial heyday in, respectively, the late '80s and...

Verckys & Orchestre Veve

Congolese Funk, Afrobeat and Psychedelic Rumba 1969 - 1978

PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2014

Verckys is the nickname of bandleader/multi-instrumentalist Georges Kiamuangana Mateta, one of the Congo's most popular musicians of the '7...