Tracks
Flora Hibberd “In Violence” – Listen
Flora Hibberd resides in Paris, but her roots are in East London. Her music taps into a seam of literate folky singer-songwriters, take your choice – Cohen, Brel – those who will sing of the dark […]
Year: 2019
News
Rosanne Cash, Isbell and more voice support for gun control
Rolling Stone carried an interesting piece yesterday on americana and country artists who in the wake of the recent mass shootings in the US have voiced their support for gun control. In several recent incidents, the […]
Previews
The East Pointers announce UK dates, new track “Wintergreen” – Listen
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 […]
Album Reviews
Rachel Harrington “Hush The Wild Horses” (Skinny Dennis Records, 2019)
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 […]
News
Book Review – “The 33 1/3 B-Sides” edited by Will Stockton and D. Gilson (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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 […]