Man Made Lakes is the new album from singer-songwriter Reuben Bullock. A sonically rich and finely-textured recording, Bullock effortlessly connects the dots between such touchstones as Bruce Springsteen, Connor Oberst/Bright Eyes, and Neil Young. The album was recorded by producer Lorrie Matheson (Samantha Savage Smith, Ghostkeeper, Rae Spoon) in a small garage studio in Calgary, mostly as a live band, often in a single take. This comes as no surprise, how...

The Buster Bledsoe Band has been burning up the highways around Eastern New Mexico, Kansas, the Oklahoma Panhandle as well as the Texas Panhandle and Central Texas since early 2007. The band is made up of lead singer and acoustic guitar player Buster Bledsoe, drummer Israel Lupercio, bass player Kenny Rickwartz, lead guitar Chris Adame and sound guy and flashlight engineer Shawn T. White. The members of this band have very different and unique backgrounds, and when they come together, they put...

“Helluva songwriter,” says bluesman Jimmy D. Lane of Hallal. “The right elements of blues and funky sensibilities keep it real” with his “gutbucket” band, says The Noise of BostonTheir sound is “tight… smoldering… electrifying…” declares Blues Bytes. And their new album, Hatchet Blues, is one of the Top 100 CDs of the year, judges Real Blues magazine, in the company ...