Album Reviews
Susy Wall “Black Lights”
A sumptuous and poetic love letter to The Black Country. This is Susy Wall’s second album after 2024’s “The Spaces in Between”. Wall has lived in the Black Country for 25 years, and the album, funded […]
Month: August 2025
Book Reviews
Book Review: Kristina R. Gaddy and Rhiannon Giddens “Go Back And Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music In The Americas For Fiddle and Banjo”
Kristina R. Gaddy is a Swedish-American writer who has researched and written hard-hitting non-fiction books. Notably, “A Most Perilous World: The True Story of the Young Abolitionists and Their Crusade Against Slavery” and “Flowers In The […]
Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed 197 “Season’s End”
Spent a few days visiting children and grandchildren over the Bank Holiday weekend and celebrating Mrs H’s birthday. And suddenly it seems that summer is over, not perhaps physically but in my head. I’m not bound […]
Tracks
Jim Basnight “Still Learning” – lessons for life
It sometimes seems like not too many people are aware that Americana UK covers, amongst other things, that musical form of jangly guitar rock that we sometimes call Power Pop. Fortunately, there are a few who […]
Videos
Video: The Dreaming Spires “21st Century Light Industrial”
Here’s the latest single from Oxfordshire band The Dreaming Spires. ’21st Century Light Industrial’ is a song of escapism that many listeners will associate with, exploring the monotony and mundanity of our everyday working lives. Inspired […]