Features
Songs for the apocalypse: Bernard Fanning “Songbird”
16 years ago I returned to Sydney for a holiday, a place where I lived as a child for a short time, and was dismayed to find that all the artists I loved first time around […]
Month: June 2020
Videos
Video: Phil Hooley “Maybe Later”
Here is another lovely vocal performance from Phil Hooley. Hooley says: “We managed to squeeze in the recording of this one just before the lockdown and now it seems to have taken on a new significance […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Gene Clark “No Other” (Asylum, 1974)
Missouri born Gene Clark’s epitaph beautifully reads: ‘No Other’, the title of his 1974 magnum opus. It would be fair to say that fortune was not kind to Clark, his early demise at the age of […]
Album Reviews
Molly Maher “Follow” (Real Phonic Records, 2020)
Waiting nine years to produce an album that “feels good”, even scrapping an album along the way because “it didn’t feel authentic”, may seem a little extreme to some, to say the least. But this is […]
News
Sturgill Simpson announces live stream show from the Ryman
Sturgill Simpson released his latest album ‘Sound & Fury’ (along with its accompanying animated film) last year, and was scheduled to shortly go on tour with Tyler Childers to support of it, but that like everything […]