Videos
Video: Maurice Mattei “I Want To Believe”
A new name to the site, the song is taken from Maurice’s Songs of Peril & Conquest album, due out mid-November.
Year: 2016
Album Reviews
Tom Baxendale “In The City A Short Time Ago” (Backwater Collective, 2016)
Another slice of new American Americana drifts into town on the back of half written melodies and unsympathetic production that buries the vocals behind a sheen of dulled instrumentation. Surprising really as Tom Baxendale has self […]
News
Pele to Release 25th Anniversary Edition of “Fireworks”
The “silver” version if you will. 2017 will be 25 years since Ian Prowse’s first ever album with his Liverpool based band Pele, one of the pioneers of the “folk rock” genre of the time, a […]
Live Reviews
Chip Taylor: Glasgow Americana Festival The Classic Grand – 7th October 2016
You know you’re in the presence of greatness when the artist onstage is recounting his recent meetings with Tom Petty and Elvis Costello and you just know that they were in awe of the artist as […]
Album Reviews
Ben Glover “The Emigrant” (Proper Records, 2016)
Glover was born and raised in Ireland and is domiciled in the US. He uses these experiences to power the sense of belonging or not, the rootlessness, the mixture of feelings that surround the transplanted. He […]