August 2021 – Page 30

Artwork for Garrett Heath album, "Kingdom Come"

Garrett Heath “Kingdom Come”

August 4, 2021 Richard Phillips 0

Reflective melancholy drives a search for truth, peace and love. “I believe the world will be saved by beauty”; so says Prince Lev Nikolyaevich Myshkin, the protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, ‘The Idiot’. As a proponent […]

Classic Americana Albums: Jonathan Wilson “Fanfare”

August 4, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 2

Revitalising the Laurel Canyon scene and spawning a classic all in one go. 2011’s ‘Gentle Spirit’ caught the attention with its guitar-driven, parched songs and stylings but in 2013 Wilson released what remains his most consistent […]

Track Premiere: Bill Filipiak “Fearing The Dawn”

August 4, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Fearing the Dawn‘ is a country-blues shuffle of a song on which Bill Filipiak sings of coming to terms with his father’s death – not an easy journey as he confesses that “It took five years […]

Video Premiere: The Bean Pickers Union “Warrior”

August 4, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

Since 2006, Chuck Melchin has been putting out great Americana with a fluid, ever-changing collective called The Bean Picker’s Union, a cast of fine musicians. The band’s music reflects a range of roots influences and they […]

Jeremy Squires “Unravel”

August 3, 2021 Lyndon Bolton 0

Dreamy melodic poetry for dark times. For his 11th release Jeremy Squires delves deep into a world of intense sadness and loss. This prolific multi-instrumentalist has written a collection of songs from the depths of pandemic […]