January 2018 – Americana UK

Boathouse Keepers “Emperor of Oranges” (Backwater Records 2017)

January 31, 2018 Mark Underwood 0

If the lyrics to most popular music can usually be reduced to the essentials of “Baby I love you,” or “why did you leave me?” then you have to applaud the efforts of any musical act […]

Album premiere: Whiskey in the Pines “Sunshine From the Blue Cactus”

January 31, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

While Whiskey in the Pines hail from Florida, synonymous with endless sunshine and miles of beaches, the ocean is still a long way from the band’s hometown Tallahassee (not so far from us here in Liverpool, […]

Steve Hartsoe “The Big Fix Deluxe Edition” (Independent 2017)

January 31, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0

Crashing into life with the big Pettyesque footstomper ‘Said and Done’ this album bursts forth on a wave of Californian country rock, a breezy West Coast sound from a breezy West Coast resident. A former rock […]

The Good Graces “The First Girl” – Listen

January 31, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

The Good Graces is the folk collective formed by Kim Ware in Atlanta back in 2007. The First Girl is taken from the band’s latest release, The Hummingbird EP, and takes a bold and unflinchingly honest […]

Video: Shane Joyce “The Sadness Of King Joyce”

January 31, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

The new single (and the title track of his next album, due out on April 9th) from Shane Joyce, front man of the excellent Midnight Union Band, is a great noir-ish and gritty slice of life.