October 2024 – Page 18

Sounds from beyond the Shed 159 “Why can’t people just be nice?”

October 18, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 4

Regular readers will know that I occasionally head over to France and Belgium to show people round the battlefields and commemorative sites of World War I and sometimes II. Last week it was the turn of […]

Video: Chuck Prophet “Red Sky Night”

October 18, 2024 Andrew Frolish 1

The new single from San Francisco-based Chuck Prophet and cumbia band ¿Qiensave? is simply full of beauty. The rich layers, including stunning guitar and lap steel, are the base from which Prophet finds a delightful vocal […]

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Essentials: The Top Ten Kasey Chambers Songs

October 17, 2024 FredArnold 3

Kasey Chambers flies well below the radar of most American fans of this genre, and it is probably the same with UK listeners – she is a very niche listen. The reason is simple. For a […]

Juanita Stein announces release of fourth album “The Weightless Hour”

October 17, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Juanita Stein will release her new album “The Weightless Hour” on 29th November via Agricultural Audio. The Howling Bells frontwoman will launch her fourth solo album with a series of in-store shows, before joining Travis on […]

Peter Bruntnell “Houdini and The Sucker Punch”

October 17, 2024 Paul Kerr 4

Peter Bruntnell returns to the fray with an album which ranks amongst his best. Peter Bruntnell’s latest album finds him returning to a full band lineup after his foray into a more introspective landscape on “Journey […]

Convinced Friend “On Fire” – get the extinguishers

July 17, 2026 0

You may be wondering what a Convinced Friend is – and it’s a good question that Austin Wilson made some sense of on the debut self-titled album by the band he fronts: here were a set […]

Video: Stephen Wilson Jr. “Gary”

July 17, 2026 0

Compelling with just his guitar and low, understated storytelling voice, Stephen Wilson Jr. delivered a fine solo version of his single Gary at CMA Fest recently. The recording featured on the ABC primetime special ‘CMA Fest […]

Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0

Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]

Month: October 2024