October 2020 – Page 22

Danny Newcomb “Mackerel Sky” (Rock Candy Mountain, 2020)

October 14, 2020 Helen Jones 0

Musician Danny Newcomb’s latest album sees him coming from an unusual perspective for someone whose life has been dedicated to rock ‘n’ roll: raising children, and sheep, on a farm on the pastoral Vashon Island. It’s […]

Watch Isbell and Shires cover John Prine’s “Storm Windows”

October 14, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit have been playing several fairly rainy nights of socially distanced performances at the Caverns venue in Pelham, Tennesse which concluded on Sunday night, but the previous night’s show took place […]

Video Premiere: Jeffery Straker “Morning Light”

October 14, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

From the moment Jeffery Straker sings: “I’m staring at the stars // But I ain’t Galileo,” over flowing piano, it’s easy to get lost in ‘Morning Light’. There’s a cinematic quality to the beautiful lyrics and […]

D.L. Marble “One Line At A Time” (Independent, 2020)

October 14, 2020 Tim Martin 0

When D.L. Marble and producer Eric “Roscoe” Ambel, whose C.V. includes Steve Earle, Nils Lofgren and Joan Jett, were planning this album the conversation probably went something along the lines of, “keep it basic and simple, […]

I’m Kingfisher “The Past Has Begun” (Fading Trails Recordings, 2020)

October 14, 2020 Sean Hannam 0

When Swedish indie-folk singer-songwriter Thomas Jonsson sat down to start work on ‘The Past Has Begun’, the third album under his I’m Kingfisher moniker, he came up against an old enemy – writer’s block. “I couldn’t […]