September 2024 – Page 2

56 years after his debut, 79 year old Christy Moore announces a new album and dates

September 30, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

It’s a numbers game! There are few artists who can legitimately claim ‘living legend’ status – Christy Moore undoubtedly can but wouldn’t as modesty would forbid. His new album “A Terrible Beauty” comes out on November […]

The Cold Stares “Mortality Blues”

September 30, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

The Cold Stares look death in the eye in their new single ‘Mortality Blues.’ A slow burn of a track centered around a rustic dobro guitar riff, the song builds but never boils over. This is […]

Video: Steve Louw “Cruel Hand of Fate” feat. Joe Bonamassa

September 30, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s the artfully-shot new video from South African guitarist and singer-songwriter Steve Louw. ‘Cruel Hand of Fate’ is a song of journeys and the passage of time. Captured in both the lyrics and the video, the […]

Something for the weekend: Christy Moore “Victor Jara”

September 27, 2024 Mark Whitfield 3

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. I have been making my way over recent months through the lovely “Poetry for the Many” anthology put together by Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey. It’s […]

Hearts of Oak “Valley of Dark Hills”

September 27, 2024 Dean Nardi 0

Pilgrims crossing a dark valley, unable to shake off the sorrow. Since bass player Aron Christenson was killed two years ago while hiking with his dog near Walput Lake in Lewis County, Oregon, guitarist Ezra Meredith […]

Video: Amy Speace “Days of Letting Go” – from a poem to a song to a poem

September 11, 2026 0

The combination of beautifully poetic spoken word and pure, melodic singing in Amy Speace’s Days of Letting Go is utterly absorbing. Speace has just released a poetry collection, The Cardinals, along with this gorgeous accompanying single. […]

Fruition “Something More”

September 10, 2026 0

Dense harmonies and insightful words make this a “why haven’t I heard them before” album. Fruition say that “this album is the culmination of almost two decades of making music. We set out to show the […]

Americana Stories – John Jenkins “Just One of Those Nights”

September 10, 2026 0

Liverpool singer-songwriter John Jenkins and is one of our “most compelling voices in folk, Americana, and country,” as his press accurately describes him. Having seen him play live with his regular musical partner, Pippa Murdie, in […]

Month: September 2024