August 2019 – Page 17

The East Pointers announce UK dates, new track “Wintergreen” – Listen

August 15, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

We were going to try and claim The East Pointers as another NWOABB, but the Juno Award-winning band are a little too Canadian for that. And maybe not that Bluegrass either – there’s a vibrant take […]

Rachel Harrington “Hush The Wild Horses” (Skinny Dennis Records, 2019)

August 14, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

It has been fully seven years since Rachel Harrington’s last album ‘Celilo Falls‘, and those intervening years have been eventful for her to say the least. After the touring to support ‘Celilo Falls‘ Rachel Harrington was […]

Book Review – “The 33 1/3 B-Sides” edited by Will Stockton and D. Gilson (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

August 14, 2019 Rick Bayles 0

This is a lot of reading for the money! I’ve reviewed a number of books from this series over the past few months; usually a 33 1/3 book consists of an in-depth assessment of a key […]

Songs for the apocalypse: Whiskeytown “Houses on the Hill”

August 14, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

It’s sobering to think that North Carolina band Whiskeytown formed 25 years ago now, and while they’re best known for being Ryan Adams’ first project, they were more than the sum of their parts and very […]

Emily Mae Winters “High Romance” (Independent 2019)

August 14, 2019 Alan Fitter 0

Some albums are all about the songs, some albums are all about the production but ‘High Romance’, the second album from Emily Mae Winters is all about the voice. That’s not to say there aren’t some […]