September 2020 – Page 12

Jason Isbell: “I’d like this mask to protect me from Van Morrison” – Watch

September 22, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

You may have seen Van Morrison in the press last week raging against restrictions because of Covid with a new batshit song which goes: “No more lockdown / No more government overreach / No more fascist […]

Balsam Range “Richest Man” – Listen

September 22, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Marc Pruett, Buddy Melton, Darren Nicholson, Tim Surrett and Caleb Smith are Balsam Range, a bluegrass band from North Carolina. They’ve won a string of awards (a long string at that) in the last few years, […]

Video: Ben Harper “Inland Empire”

September 22, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Simply, breathtakingly beautiful. Ben Harper is an incredibly talented performer and, here, he shows how the lap steel guitar can be used to create musical poetry. It needs no words. Harper has just announced the release […]

VERSIONS: “That’s How I Got to Memphis”

September 21, 2020 Paul Villers 4

Here we are again with VERSIONS – our look at the songs, the performers and the interpretations by performers of the songs. This week Clint West looks at the country standard ‘That’s How I Got to […]

Austin Lucas “The Times” – Listen

September 21, 2020 Jonathan Aird 1

The album will be out on October 30th, it’s called ‘Alive In The Hot Zone!‘ and it’s a sort of lockdown record – with the added twist that Austin Lucas has hunkered down in Mainz, away from […]