Lyndon Bolton’s Best of 2018 in Americana Music 

Best of’s can raise as many hackles as they do curiosity or even interest. But if by any chance someone asked me to name my top ten for this year I’d…

Last night was the first ever WXNA Holiday Party - it was a swell affair and affirmed how lucky I am to be a part of this amazing group of people. 

After that, I headed to The Basement for…

JAMES SCOTT BULLARD 
Full Tilt Boogie 
Big Mavis Music, 2018 

Score: 8/10 

Country music comes in many forms these days, but few are as exciting, unpredictable and ragged as South Carolina’s James Scott Bullard and his 6th album. 

Had a great time at Dee's last night.  It is always a pleasure to see Wild Ponies - to me they are the best of what Nashville has to offer - both musically and as people.   They were fantastic last…

 In the write what you know style, James Scott Bullard has found a muse for his recent release, Full Tilt Boogie. The South Carolina musician claims that ‘all my songs are about bad decisions’, using the line as a mantra…

Loose paraphrased translation:

"...This glorious Full Tilt Boogie. "All my songs try to make bad decisions," says Bullard. There has been rehabilitation in between (he thought that sobriety would end his creativity, but not), and a long list of aggravated…

The adage would have us believe that a leopard never changes his spots. So, I guess, James Scott Bullard must be some other kind of cat altogether. A collection of his earlier tracks titled The Rise and Fall of… (recently…

Here's a rough translation:

Fresh from the press in April, Full Tilt Boogie is the mighty last piece for James Scott Bullard, a boy from the rural south of the United States, born in South Carolina from a mixed-blood…

Full Tilt Boogie by James Scott Bullard
by Lyndon Bolton 

Tribute bands there are aplenty but I’m not so sure about tribute album reviews. Well, here’s one; a tribute to the Americana Music Show. I understand and respect Calvin’s…

By Jim Hynes

If ever a title typified an album, Full Tilt Boogie does a decent job. This is unrelenting, full throttle outlaw country assault with screaming guitars and riffs that sound at times like the Allman Brothers on…