Thomas Oliver - Beneath The Weissenborn Album Review
09 Sep 2013 // review by blues.bass
Thomas Oliver is one extremely seriously talented bloke.Thomas is perhaps slightly better known for the band that bears his name (The Thomas Oliver Band - who incidentally won the "iTunes Best Blues & Roots Album of 2011" award for their debut album Baby, I'll Play), but he is also an incredible player of the Weissenborn lap-slide guitar.
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Matthew Pickering - Up at the Bunkers EP Review
01 Oct 2012 // review by blues.bass
While sitting down and looking out of the window on a bleak Auckland day (more suited to autumn than spring), Matthew Pickering’s EP ‘Up at the Bunkers’ brought a welcome ray of sunlight across the table.
Matthew’s day gig by all accounts is in Parliament as a Hansard Editor, checking over the report of the proceedings of the House.
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Darren Watson - Saint Hilda’s Faithless Boy Album Review
04 Sep 2012 // review by blues.bass
They say good things come to those that wait, and it has been a long wait between albums from one of this country's premier blues men, Darren Watson.There has been more than half a decade between the release of Watson's previous album 'South Pacific Soul' and his latest 'Saint Hilda's Faithless Boy'.
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