Articles by Alan O'Hare

Rich Krueger sets out his stall from the start: “My body of songs are coming from two different periods in my life: ‘Then’ is from 1985 to 1988, ‘NOW’ is almost a 20-year gap later when […]

‘By The Sea’ is a lovely record. “It’d last for a lifetime if you would just let it in,” sings Devonshire songwriter Freya Ward and all sounds right in the world. It’s the title track’s beguiling […]

Will Oldham is one of a kind. Sure, the tools of his trade and how he uses them are as old as the hills, but there’s something startlingly original about this master craftsmen. Some of his […]

Janne Saaristo is from Sweden. Gothenburg, to be exact. It’s important to be exact. In ‘Old Dogs’, the opening song of his second album, the ex-punk sings that “even an old dog can learn” and all about “masters […]

“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.” The English literary critic Cyril Connolly said that. It’s unclear if the only child of Major Matthew William Kemble Connolly ever […]