Sam Phillips - Don’t Do Anything

May 27, 2008 by Robbie McCown · 2 Comments 

Sam Phillips
Don’t Do Anything
Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★★

With Don’t Do Anything, Sam Phillips‘ third album for Nonesuch Records, the songwriter has again made an album to become awestruck by. Read more

Katie Herzig - Apple Tree

May 15, 2008 by Robbie McCown · 1 Comment 

Katie Herzig
Apple Tree
Marion-Lorraine Records

Rating: ★★★★½

I was extremely pleased when I learned that Nashville based songwriter, Katie Herzig had a new album on the horizon a couple of months ago. Her previous releases, 2004’s Watch Them Fall and 2006’s Weightless, are beauties to behold and I anticipated that her latest, Apple Tree, would be of the same vein. And I was right. Read more

Rachael Sage - Chandelier

May 12, 2008 by Robbie McCown · Leave a Comment 

Rachael Sage
Chandelier
MPress Records

Rating: ★★★☆☆

Seeming never to rest for very long, Rachael Sage has released her eighth studio album in Chandelier, a thirteen track affair that finds the songwriter penning songs that shine the spotlight on intense, but troubled relationships and introspection and delivered with her usual sweet and smart pop sensibilities. Read more

Donna Lewis - In The Pink

April 29, 2008 by Robbie McCown · 1 Comment 

Donna Lewis
In The Pink
Peruzzi Music

Rating: ★★½☆☆

It’s hard to believe that it’s been twelve years since Welsh singer-songwriter Donna Lewis released her massively popular ‘I Love You Always Forever,’ a song that is still in rotation on many radio stations and broke records for being the first single to break over one million spins on the radio. Read more