February 2020 – Page 9

Amy LaVere ft. Will Sexton + Between The Vines, The Rose and Monkey, Manchester, 11th February 2020

February 24, 2020 Clint West 0

Amy LaVere and Will Sexton travelled down to Manchester from their previous night’s show in Glasgow, via Newcastle. The reason for this lengthy detour, they informed us, was to retrieve Will’s jacket which he had left […]

The Mastersons “No Time For Love Songs” (Red House Records, 2020)

February 24, 2020 Tim Martin 0

Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore, collectively The Mastersons, spend some of their time as part of Steve Earle’s Dukes. This is their fourth album and starts with the title track, a love song. Produced by Shooter […]

Track Premiere: Craig Gerdes “Only The Road Knows”

February 24, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Craig Gerdes has that low rumbling growl of a voice that, coupled with his songs and their arrangements can’t help but bring that Outlaw sound to mind. He’s opened for the likes of Tyler Childers and […]

Video: Joe Edwards “Keep On Running”

February 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

This is a song and video with a wonderful sense of feel-good freedom, summed up by the hitchhiker’s sign part way through, which reads: ‘Goin Anywhere’. It features the open road running through the most gorgeous […]

Watch Billy Bragg & Peter Donegan perform “Rock Island Line” at the AMAUKs

February 21, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

We leave you this week dear reader with a clip courtesy of the Blues Kitchen from this year’s AMAUK awards where Billy Bragg performed the classic ‘Rock Island Line’ with Lonnie Donegan’s son Peter. It was […]