February 2023 – Page 2

Benjamin Dakota Rogers Album "Paint Horse"

Benjamin Dakota Rogers “Paint Horse”

February 28, 2023 Andy Davidson 0

Joyously along and across the grain. Benjamin Dakota Rogers’ family live on a farm in Scotland. Not here. A place in Ontario, Canada. Around 170,000 Scots, mostly farmers, crossed the Atlantic to Canada between 1815 and […]

Track Premiere: Sara Petite “Bringin’ Down The Neighbourhood”

February 28, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1

P.F. Sloan wrote, and Barry McGuire sang, “hate your next door neighbour but don’t forget to say grace” – and whilst that’s a fine skewering of hypocrisy we can’t help but wonder what he would have […]

Video Premiere: Jake Ybarra “A Whole Lot to Remember”

February 28, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

The latest single from Jake Ybarra is full of rockabilly energy. ‘A Whole Lot to Remember’ is the tale of an unruly party guy, delivered in a suitably upbeat, uptempo fashion by Ybarra, whose rhythmic strum […]

Emmett Finley “Emmett Finley”

February 27, 2023 Alan Fitter 0

Finally, Emmett Finley’s one and only album gets a worldwide release over fifty years since it was recorded. In 1971 Emmett Finley recorded his only album before disappearing from the music scene. Now over fifty years […]

Iris DeMent “Workin’ On A World”

February 27, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

A protest album for today with the hope of a gospel song. It is eight years since Iris DeMent released her last album, and ‘Workin’ On A World’ is only her seventh album in a thirty-year […]