How great were The Band? Great enough to craft ten remarkable songs that remain moving and often exhilarating, even under trying and some might say demanding circumstances.
Comfort isn’t the takeaway from many of the eerier stories told on Calico Jim, but they do offer some insight into how the past informs the future - and how small stories can, over the course of history, impact our world and culture at large.
Still That Kid is very much a placeholder record, with Mize ultimately resting on his laurels and relying on collaborators to pull him out from under his shell.
The six-song project takes the songwriter away from the dark shadows of his debut album and shows us a little more colour.
Throughout Dangerous, Wallen is supremely comfortable in mythologising his home state of Tennessee, crafting a sepia-tinged view of rural America.
The theory is enticing, but Greenfields is frustratingly a missed opportunity to breathe fresh life into Gibb’s music.
