Review: The Teskey Brothers - Half Mile Harvest (Deluxe)

What an amazing album!

"You're just plain mean to me woman..." - What an opening line for one of the most incredible albums I have heard in a long time. This album bounces from meandering feeling tracks like "Crying Shame" right through to dirty, midnight, bourbon soaked blues on "Hard Feeling".

Josh Teskeys voice is strong, confident and full of dust bowl gravel, but can also be soft, tender and warm. The lyrical content is sometimes predictable with stories of love, loss and desperation, but delivered in a way that makes you believe what he's preaching.

In guitar circles, where great technical players are a dime a dozen, true feel players like Sam Teskey are a rare gem. He delivers his message through his divine note selection, space and timing, with sublime patience, a virtue often missing from mainstream guitar players. This restraint is so superbly stated in "Say You'll Do" - it must be 2am and raining somewhere! He also seems to be more than comfortable playing across styles including slide which is such a cool thing to hear in 2021

Brendon Love (bass) and Liam Gough (drums) hold a beautiful, understated role supporting the Teskey front men and they do it with super style that sounds effortless. On tracks like "Shiny Moon" the addition of percussion elements harks back to an Allman Brothers sound.

I really can't express what a revelation the Teskey Brothers have been and I can't wait to buy, and review more of their work.

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Rhiannon Simpson

I first met Rhiannon Simpson when she was just starting out on her musical adventure. She played guitar, drums and anything else she could get her hands on but more than her musical talent, her personality was just so engaging. She was excited to be alive at every turn and I was really hoping to work with her in the future. So far I have had the great privilege of doing two photoshoots and some gigs with Rhiannon, things I would love to do more of in the future!

Rat Music

Somewhere around 2016 I was doing a lot of photography and realised that I would like to do something that combined my love of music and still imagery - and Rat Music was born.

I was lucky enough to be playing semi-regular gigs at Suttons House Of Music so I thought no better place to host an exhibition as part of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale . As luck would have it, the amazing Nadia Moth was also looking for a place to exhibit so we got to work, and with the help of the fantastic Dani Fry and staff at Suttons we were away. We had a fantastic launch with Tessa Marshall and Shane Gilbert providing entertainment. Below is a gallery of the images that I created. Some are posed, some are live. All of the images were given to the artists (where possible) as a donation for their time and effort. This was such a fun project and I would love to do something like this again in the future. In order are:

• Adrian Smith

• Andrew Fry

• Deb Clarke

• Jac Kreemers

• Max Sharam

• Mick Trembath

• Patrick McCabe

• Rhiannon Simpson

• Shane Gibert

• Steve Plater

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