From The Shamrock Connection It’s Delightful, It’s De-Lovely, It’s Decider. Wednesday, January 23, 2013 By Mikayla Khramov It’s hard folk and rock and roll. It’s that feeling you get when you’re on the road, and you roll down the windows, and you turn up the stereo. That free-spirit sensation-that’s what you get when you put in Brian […]
Monthly Archives: January 2013
“Decider—Los Angeles singer-songwriter Brian Whelan’s solo debut after making a couple of records with Brokedown (a.k.a. the Broken West) and playing in Dwight Yoakam’s touring band—is classicist guitar rock with country-rock and rockabilly shadings, confidently occupying similar musical space to guys like Brendan Benson and Marshall Crenshaw. The opening title track is a muscular, hooky […]
“Brian Whelan, Decider (Three Moves Equals a Fire) This is good power pop, a 21st century version of the feel-good California pop music of the ’70’s. “High And Lonesome” is one of several spots Whelan and Ross Flournoy on guitar sound like Keith Richards and Brian Jones might if they’d grown up as West Coast […]