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"Deliver Me from Nowhere" Warren Zanes Book Cover

Book Review: Warren Zanes “Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska”

March 20, 2024 Andy Davidson 0

When a tortured artist sat in a bedroom recording demos on a cassette tape… and came out with a lo-fi masterpiece. The epilogue to this book has Warren Zanes being contacted by Bruce Springsteen to ask […]

Driftwood “December Last Call”

March 20, 2024 Paul Kerr 0

Bold and brash folk rock to post pandemic introspection from an engaging upper New York troupe A band from upstate New York, Driftwood fly out of the traps with the title song of their latest album […]

Video: The Dead South “Yours to Keep”

March 20, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

Suspenders and suspense fill the screen as things get strange in the new video from The Dead South. On the heels of their debut at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, the Canadian four-piece has released […]

New Glen Campbell album of duets coming in April – A re-imagining of the classic “Ghost on the Canvas”

March 20, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Big Machine Records and Surfdog Records have released the fourth advanced track from the “GLEN CAMPBELL DUETS – Ghost on the Canvas Sessions”(released on 19th April 2024). Hope Sandoval, lead singer of Mazzy Star, lends her […]

Sophie Gault “Baltic Street Hotel”

March 20, 2024 Peter Churchill 4

Echoes of Americana icons in an impressive follow-up album. Two years after her debut ‘Delusions of Grandeur’, released under the moniker Sophie & The Broken Things, Sophie Gault returns with ‘Baltic Street Hotel’, a worthy follow-up […]

Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

June 26, 2026 2

Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]

Tift Merritt “Sugar”

June 26, 2026 0

Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]

Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

June 26, 2026 0

Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

Year: 2024