Columns
Shuffle: Now that’s what I call 1984
Every so often a Minutemen track will turn up on my iPod and it will rekindle my love for the San Pedro trio and I’ll just have to have another listen to ‘Double Nickels on the […]
Month: April 2022
Album Reviews
William Clark Green “Baker Hotel”
Sixth studio album from native Texan singer songwriter firmly anchored in his home state. Similar to his previous records, Texan singer songwriter, William Clark Green’s new album, ‘Baker Hotel’, is rooted firmly in the Lone Star […]
Album Reviews
Alice DiMicele “Every Seed We Plant”
Powerful and emotive vocals allied to razor sharp songwriting. In true ‘Sliding Doors’ tradition it is always fascinating to reflect upon a moment in a musician’s life that helped nudge them in the direction of a […]
Live Reviews
Live review: Annie Keating, The Fallen Angels Club @The Glad Cafe, Glasgow – 9th April 2022
As the “new normal” slowly settles in, the gig calendar is filling up and that sense of release, almost a degree of frisson, which one experienced when the first chords rang out after two years of […]
Album Reviews
Birds of Play “Murmurations Vol. 2”
A string band striding purposefully that boundary between folk and country. Colorado’s Birds of Play are an acoustic foursome of, predominantly, guitar, mandolin, upright bass and violin. Having started as a three piece they expanded with […]