Jack Gladstone earns NAMA for Native Anthropology
Blackfeet musician and storyteller Jack Gladstone won a Native American Music Award in the Best Historical Recording category for his latest album, Native Anthropology. Award winners were named Oct. 7, and feted that weekend during a celebration in Niagara Falls. Gladstone was also nominated in the categories of Songwriter of the Year and Best Folk Recording. Read more
Jim Averitt | Cooking with Love
Gallatin Gateway singer/guitarist Jim Averitt has a new CD that's a country/pop mix of romantic and bittersweet songs, written mostly by him. Averitt has a relaxing baritone voice, and writes conversational lyrics. The superb backing of the Abiders, the touring band of film star Jeff Bridges, complements his new CD. Read more
Little Jane and the Pistol Whips | This Town
Livingston guitarist and songstress Ashly Jane Holland and the fellas, the Pistol Whips, have put out their first CD, replete with 14, count 'em, original tunes by the songwriter. The Whips are excellent pickers all, and Holland possesses a throwback voice to the days of unadulterated country, a milieu that's all sliced up now into a bunch of categories. Read more
Mission Mountain Wood Band | Reboot
The title of M2WB’s new release, Reboot, is a clever turn of phrase on this Internet Age, kick-starting a band whose heyday was the ’70s and ’80s … The fellows are in fine form here on their first in-studio recording in 30 years. The band straddles the many moods of country music on these 11 originals, along the way giving us dazzlingly smooth production values and pretty darn good musicianship. Read more
Bush makes only Montana stop in Billings
Bush, the British alternative rock band that forged the sound of what would come to characterize an entire decade, make its only Montana stop, 8 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Babcock Theatre in Billings. The tour marks the release of Sea of Memories, the Londoners’ first album since the band reunited in 2010. One of the most commercially successful alternative rock bands of the 1990s … Read more
Voodoo Horseshoes | Flight of the Platypus
The five members of this group from Missoula call themselves "redneck-hippie-stoner-country-freaks" on their new CD. Hmmm. That about covers the mash of styles in the nine Anthony Gordon-penned tunes. The first number, "I Can't," is a rockin' blues with a whiff of Stevie Wonder in the bassline. Gordon sings in a husky baritone, usually souped up somehow. Read more • (1) Comments
Reid Perry | Juarez
Hardin singer/songwriter Reid Perry has recently released his second effort, this one on the Tate Music Group (TMG) label. Perry sings and plays oodles of guitars and harmonica on 13 originals, along with Chuck Holland on bass and guitar, and Sam Contreraz on drums. The title tune, “Juarez,” is a visual tale, like most of Perry's compositions, and a country rocker in which the musician gets starstruck over a "girl with a borrowed smile." Read more