Features
Ten top Swamp Rock tracks
In my recent little trawl through the Americana music of Louisiana we’ve had Cajun, Zydeco and Swamp Pop so, finally, we come to a close cousin, Swamp Rock. Swamp Rock started to be identified as a […]
Month: March 2021
Album Reviews
Morning Bride “Goodbye, Seaside Danny Wilde”
Richly woven and warm, these transportive tales will take you away. While Morning Bride are a band formed in London, its members come from various northern realms: the Yorkshire coast for rhythm guitarist Mark James Pearson, […]
Album Reviews
Cassandra Jenkins “An Overview on Phenomenal Nature”
Spellbinding Art-Americana from NYC. New York native Cassandra Jenkins returns with her second full-length studio album; an intimate, varied, and complex piece of work. Due to go on tour with Purple Mountains before David Berman’s suicide, […]
Columns
Sounds from the Shed – Week 9
A monumental week for all of us. So I cleared the desk, put the laptop in its case, HD camera combo in its box, packed the files into a bulging Aldi bag, noted in my diary […]
Tracks
Alex Southey “Rosie” – Listen
Rosie is inspired by Alex Southey’s attempts at growing of herbs – specifically Rosemary – on a balcony in Vancouver. In a strange way the failure of the crop became an allegory for Southey’s feelings for […]