Michael McDermott - Orphans - COMPACT DISCS

With St. Paul's Boulevard, Michael McDermott has finally created the masterpiece that so many people knew he had in him. The album is bold, broad shouldered, brave and beautiful. Where is St. Paul's Boulevard? McDermott said, InchFor me... everyone has their own St. Paul's Boulevard. Where we suffered heartbreak and lost our innocence. We learned about our shortcomings and searched to find our place in this world. Where we struggled to nurture love and light in a darkened world. Those days are now just a wash of dreams of characters of drunken and drug fueled nights wandering all over town looking for an angry fix driven by love, lust or some kind of connection.Inch Backed by his incredible band and co-produced with his drummer Steven Gillis, McDermott also brought in some A-listers like Will Kimbrough, David Grissom, John Deaderick to fill out this InchWall Of SoundInch album.

Hans Hellsten - Spanish Dreams [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/21/2008

Simply put, Michael McDermott's latest, What in the World... is a rock and roll/ singer-songwriter tour de force in a career full of them. What in the World is a cavalcade of emotions and textures. Guitars ring one moment, then soothe with warm fingerpicking the next. The title track is a flat-out rocker and a politically charged anthem for the election year. There might be a lot of pain being sung about, but the record never succumbs to the darkness. The characters might be buried, but they're not dead. What in the World... is a record by a man who knows who he is. Bloody and unbowed.