January 2024 – Page 9

Video: Dean Owens “After the Rain” (Feat. Joey Burns, Martin Wenk, Kevin McGuire)

January 24, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Back in 2021, when the impact of the pandemic was still truly felt around the world. The entire Celtic Connections festival moved online and Dean Owens was commissioned to pull together a 30-minute performance alongside Calexico’s […]

Interview: Ida Mae’s Chris Turpin on “Thunder Above You”

January 23, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

English folk and American roots music with improvisation and tour support from a nanny. Ida Mae are husband and wife Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean Ward who play an indie folk americana mix that they’ve worked […]

artwork for P.J.M. Bond album "In Our Time"

P.J.M. Bond “In Our Time”

January 23, 2024 Graeme Tait 0

Ambitious debut album that attempts to put Ernest Hemingway’s first collection of short stories to music. P.J.M Bond is a songwriter based in Amsterdam who first came to prominence around eight years ago with his band […]

More People Really Should Know About: Charles Wesley Godwin

January 23, 2024 Andy Davidson 2

To those who question why an artist who recently headlined two nights at the Ryman Auditorium requires further recognition… I apologise unreservedly. In the americana music world the man’s star has already ascended and he really […]

Artwork for Smith and Tegio album '"Can't Stay Here"

Smith and Tegio “Can’t Stay Here”

January 23, 2024 David Jarman 0

Blues flavours to fine acoustic country/Americana from West Coast US duo Smith and Tegio. Duo Smith and Tegio are long-established songwriting and performing partners Austin Smith and Mark Tegio, based respectively in Santa Cruz CA, and […]

Mary Gauthier “Reckoning”

September 22, 2026 2

One of our finest songwriters delivers an album for our times with consummate clarity and lyrical daring. Mary Gauthier was something of a late starter, delivering her first album when she was in her late thirties […]

Sylvie finally make a full length debut which arrives in November

September 22, 2026 1

Sylvie, the project of Los Angeles artist Ben Schwab, has announced their forthcoming album, New Season, available November 6th, 2026, via Ghostly International. Rina (feat. Alex Amen) is the single out now. Reflecting on a passing […]

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More People Really Should Know About: Carey Ott

September 22, 2026 0

Carey Ott is nothing if not prolific. He hails from Chicago, and he’s a multi-instrumentalist, a producer and engineer and a performer. He’s released seven albums to date as well as numerous singles. In my music […]

Month: January 2024