September 2020 – Page 19

The Kronos Quartet “Which Side Are You On?” – Listen

September 16, 2020 Jonathan Aird 1

Dave, John, Hank and Sunny – better known as The Kronos Quartet (and that’s David Harrington, violin; John Sherba, violin; Hank Dutt, viola; Sunny Yang, cello) – are, thankfully, fully in-step craftily avoiding any of those […]

Jake Winstrom “Circles” (Independent, 2020)

September 16, 2020 Sean Hannam 0

New York resident Jake Winstrom says his first solo album, 2018’s ‘Scared Away The Song’, suffered from too many “serious songwriter” type songs and not enough fun, uptempo, jangly rock ‘n’ roll. Rest assured, on the […]

Book Review: Elizabeth Thomson “Joan Baez: The Last Leaf” (Palazzo, 2020)

September 16, 2020 Rick Bayles 0

Joan Baez is one of those artists that, for most of us, has always been there. I’ve certainly always been aware of her presence, throughout my interest in popular music in general, and folk and roots […]

Video: Adrian Sutherland “Politician Man”

September 16, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is a protest song that began its life in northern Canada, where Adrian Sutherland’s remote Cree community, Attawapiskat, faced a crisis due to contaminated water. Anger over political finger-pointing and inaction inspired the song ‘Politician […]

Two Bird Stone “Hands And Knees” (Soundly Music, 2020)

September 16, 2020 Alan Fitter 0

‘Hands And Knees’ is the debut album from Two Bird Stone which is a new band made up of some of Nashville and New York’s finest session musicians. The driving force behind the band is Liam […]