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Something for the weekend: Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Matt Sweeney “Resist the Urge”

April 30, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it for another week dear reader. We hope you’re geared up to sit half-frozen in your garden tepidly nursing an IPA. Do send us your choices for our new readers picks feature which we […]

Cole Quest And The City Pickers “Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key”- Listen

April 30, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s one of Woody Guthrie’s unset songs that were rescued by Billy Bragg and Wilco, but if anyone has a right to cover it then I guess that person would be Cole Quest who is Woody’s […]

Book Review – Loren Glass “Tapestry”

April 30, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 0

Concise readable overview of a classic ’70s album. The Bloomsbury 331/3 series has produced another in its 150 plus catalogue of volumes about specific albums. The next in line is Carole King’s, ‘Tapestry’, described as, ‘An anthemic […]

Damien Jurado “Tom” – Listen

April 30, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Tom‘ is the second single off Damien Jurado’s 17th album ‘The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania‘, the first release from his own Maraqopa Records. The album is a collection of ten stories of people determined not to […]

Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles “Keys”

April 30, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0

Mixed offering from guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. There’s a stark, parched air to the solemn opener on this lo-fi guitar pickers fest ‘Idumea’ is one of two spiritual covers and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Newton […]