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SEVEN-YEAR
ACHE
-- Anya Kamenetz, The Village Voice, October 16 - 22, 2002
New
Orleans is a fine place to become someone else, or to luxuriate
in obscurity of your own making. Mike West and Myshkin have
done both in their time. As husband and wife, they were acoustic
iconoclasts, nearly lost in the brassy blare of New Orleans's
cash-money genres... click
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SOUTHERN
FOLK
-- Keith
Spera, The Times-Picayune, Lagniappe 08/16/02
Mike West admits to a certain fascination with the "labyrinth
of Southern politics." In the decade since he settled in New
Orleans' 9th Ward, the native of Australia has navigated that
socio-political labyrinth at its most grassroots level: By spending
weeks on end traveling from one Deep South watering hole to
the next, spinning a mix of folk and bluegrass, his own take
on Americana... click
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MIKE WEST - NEW SOUTH
-- Jes Burns, Where Y'at, August 2002
So I was lying in bed last night after a long evening at work,
relaxing, unwinding and sweating in my three-fan non-air conditioned
room and listening to New South, the most recent release from
Mike West. 'Round about track number six, I began to hear this
scratching noise near the ceiling...
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MIKE
WEST - ODDITIES & RARRITIES
-- Dan Willging, Offbeat Magazine, February 2002
Ofentimes a record with the buzzwords Oddities and Rarities
emblazoned in the title is another excuse for an artist's flock
to prove they're not only ardent but anal completists as well.
In the case of gonzo Ninth-Ward hillbilly Mike West, this is
hardly another offering of throw away out takes and b-sides...
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review
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WILD
WEST
-- Bunny Matthews, OffBeat Magazine, March 2001
Home
is, of course, where the heart is. In the case of nouveau
hillbilly multi-insturmentalist Mike West, home is "Da
Nint' Ward" and Home is the title of his sixth CD,
co-produced by West and his heart's desire, songstress wife
Myshkin... click here for remainder
of review
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MIKE
WEST - Home
-- Dan Willging, Offbeat Magazine, March 2001
As
with any progressing songwriter, their material over time becomes
deeper and more thought provoking relative to earlier work.
Such is the case with Mike West's Home ... click
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MIKE
WEST: Home
City Life #419, Nov - Dec 2000
Home
is a problematic concept. Australian-born Mike West called Levenshulme
his home during his time as frontman of The Man From Del Monte
(powerpop contenders during the Stone Roses era) and has subsequently
lived in Texas and New Orleans... click
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Mike
West 16 Easy Songs for Drill and Banjo
-- Dirty Linen, December '99/January '00 #85
Mention
the name Mike West in New Orleans and you're likely to get smirks,
rolling eyes and even heads shaking in disbelief. West warrants
all that, which makes him one of the wackiest, most demented
people ever to play acoustic music... click
here for remainder of review
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MIKE
WEST - 16 EASY SONGS FOR DRILL & BANJO
-- Mike Butle, Rock'n'Reel, UK, Autumn '99
A
maverick talent, West comes across as the bastard child of Uncle
Dave Macon and Tom Lehrer. This may surprise those who only
know him for the jangly teen anthems of The Man From DelMonte...
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THE
METAMORPHOSIS OF MIKE WEST
Mike Butler tracks down Mike West, ex-Man from
Del Monte, to a levee in New Orleans
from The Big Issue In The North, June
1999, Great Britain
It
seems laughable that Mike West ever worried that he was not
as pretty as Ian Brown.
Back
in the early Nineties, only the Stone Roses challenged the regional
dominance of the Man From Del Monte, Manchester's archetypal
jangly beat combo. One of the more unlikely reinventions of
recent history concerns West's metamorphosis from androgynous
pop tart (inseparable from his cocker-spaniel, Roger), to grizzled,
left field American troubadour. His powers of observation, and
slightly camp persona, seem to have survived the makeover...
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