Album Reviews
Bob Martin “Seabrook”
“He could have been bigger than Dylan”. Among the 1970s singer/songwriters we have lost over the past year or so there is a name that passed with scarcely a mention outside his own circle of friends. […]
Year: 2023
Album Reviews
Dom Flemons “Traveling Wildfire”
Subtle variations on solo album from Carolina Chocolate Drops co-founder. Having recorded four albums with Grammy award-winning trio The Carolina Chocolate Drops, ‘Traveling Wildfire’ is the fifth solo effort by Dom Flemons. His much-lauded role as […]
Tracks
Golden Oak “Geese” – Our pastoral perfection, imagined
Golden Oak is an indie/folk band based out of Portland, Maine, and fronted by siblings Zak and Lena Kendall, with up-right bassist Mike Knowles and Drummer Jackson Cromwell completing the line-up. On ‘Geese‘ they contemplate the […]
Tracks
Lucinda Williams “Where The Song Will Find Me” – Waiting for the muse to turn up
Lucinda Williams is a legend, and never more so than in her resilient majesty on recent tours and here with a song from the new album ‘Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart’ (out June 30th via […]
Features
The First Time: Jonathan Aird – Ralph McTell, somewhere in London, maybe 1982
This has been a strange series – seems like very few of the Americana UK writers started their gig life with anything even remotely resembling a genre artist. And there’s been a disturbing amount of prog-rock. […]