The Quiet One

Columbus music and culture

The Bobby Floyd Trio - Setting The Standards

One of the perils of using the album as a lens for understanding a music culture is that so many essential artists, for a variety of reasons, leave behind little or no recorded evidence. Before recording equipment became cheap and accessible, the studio was out of reach for most musicians. Others were too busy making a living—touring, gigging, playing covers—to make recording a priority. And some, like the nearly forgotten Elsie Janis , reached prominence either before or rig

Drew Layman

7 days ago5 min read

Omnipop - Butterfly

Jeff Ciampa ’s reputation in Columbus has always been tied to his playing—the taste, the tone, the fluency of it. But what’s less widely acknowledged is how sharp his songwriting and production instincts are. Twenty-five years after the brilliant and ambitious My Imagined Life With Alfred Moore , Ciampa and his co-conspirators in Omnipop quietly released the beautiful, otherworldly Butterfly —a record that feels like both a continuation and a culmination of a lifetime spent

Drew Layman

Dec 12, 202511 min read