Clean-cut pop ditties laced with deftly produced, occasionally mawkish Americana. Memorably insipid. When the co-founder and primary songwriter of a band as famous as INXS makes an Americana album, it’s fairly predictable that even mainstream […]
Bleak but compelling desert tomb-stone Americana engraved with whimsical European folk-noir. OK, let’s get the ‘Is-that-really-what-they’re-called?’ reaction out of the way, given that a band name as strikingly odd as Son of the Velvet Rat […]
Did you know a songwriter is like a shark that never sleeps? When asked to describe the process of creating a song, some writers, as we’ve already seen in this series, talk about their music […]
Passionate, well-constructed, generously-spirited protest music that can’t be ignored. There’s a quote attributed to Americana/folk musician Todd Snider out there where he says ‘I didn’t write this song to change people’s minds, I wrote it […]
An album which fully deserves more than just a few spins of the dial Let’s be honest here: listening to ‘Night-time Radio’, the second album in three years by Belfast americana band Willow Springs and […]
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