Articles by David Barnard

Danny Brooks

No Easy Way Out

PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2007

With this CD, Canada’s Danny Brooks is finally home. After releasing a series of soul-based, gospel-infused, blues-informed CDs, the last t...

Bobby Rush

Raw

PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2007

Bobby Rush was born in rural Louisiana, worked out of Chicago in the ’50s and for the past 25 years has been based in Jackson, Mississippi....

The Perpetrators

Tow Truck

PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2007

From Winnipeg, this three-piece house wreckin’ unit are Canada’s strongest contender to join the many bands currently lumped onto the alt-b...

Gina Sicilia

Allow Me to Confess

PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2007

You’d be forgiven for thinking that Gina Sicilia is older than 22 when listening to the debut recording by this soulful Philadelphia singer...

The Soul of John Black

The Good Girl Blues

PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2007

Imagine that Prince was born in Greenville, MS. His uncles are Albert King and Al Green. What kind of music would he create? John "JB” Bigh...

Candye Kane

PUBLISHED Aug 2, 2007

Candice Louise Kane, known to the world as Candye Kane, is a self-described cabaret blues singer, and her live shows are legendary, singing...

Candye Kane

Guitar'd and Feathered

PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2007

A contemporary version of Bessie Smith with a self-depreciating sense of humour and a merrily pansexual persona, Candice Louise Kane (aka C...

Mannish Boys

Big Plans

PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2007

This is the sophomore studio recording by the Mannish Boys, following their acclaimed 2004 debut, That Represent Man. Like its predecessor,...