News
Folk By The Oak Announce Headliners
Over the last decade Folk by the Oak has established itself as the essential “only just outside London close to a railway station one day folk music showcase” and this year looks to be no different. […]
Year: 2017
Tracks
Album premiere: Eagle Johnson & Clean Machine “Tennessee Beach”
We’re premiering the rather fantastic new album from Nashville’s Eagle Johnson & Clean Machine this morning, the best artist called Eagle since Eye Cherry and a band who make “raw, left-of-center rock & roll” (we like all […]
Album Reviews
Chris Stapleton “Songs From A Room Volume 2” (Mercury Records, 2017)
With his second release of the year, Chris Stapleton pretty much cements his reputation as traditional country music’s biggest star. Songs From A Room Volume 1 (released in May) won the award for album of the […]
Album Reviews
Nahko “My Name Is Bear” (SideOneDummy Records, 2017)
The bearable parts of this record are rendered unbearable by the spoken word interludes that are snippets of (a lack of) insight usually centred on smoking weed and trivia from his life as a touring musician […]
Album Reviews
Howie Payne “Mountain” (Full Stack Records, 2017)
This album was recorded in just four days with a band that had never played together before and most of the songs were done live in a couple of takes; given that genesis, the record sounds […]