Blues Art Journal CD Reviews
JANET ROBIN
Everything Has Changed
Hypertension HYP 10271
www.hypertension-music.eu
'Americana' is a pretty wide term but one that will be familiar to many blues lovers. It signifies music that has a healthy dose of southern American styles – blues, country, old-timey, gospel maybe – along with vintage rock and roll and rockabilly, fifties and sixties rhythm & blues, sixties soul, perhaps some blues-rock, often a Woody Guthrie influence, and a smidgin of modern rock and singer-songwriter material.
To hear what it sounds like take a listen to this exemplary set by this California singer and guitarist who recorded with Precious Metal and has worked with Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham. It was also produced by John Carter Cash, son of Johnny Cash and June Carter; and that fits perfectly.
Just in case you didn't get the message from the album, there is also a entertaining video clip, detailing the recording of the album in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Norman Darwen
