Alasdair Fotheringham

AUK’s Chain Gang: Guy Clark “Cold Dog Soup”

April 21, 2020 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

Connections between James McMurtry, last week’s AUK Chaingang link, and Guy Clark – no longer with us, but who started out writing around 20-25 years before – are multiple and powerful. Both are key figures in […]

Slow Parade “Hi-Fi LowLife” (Independent, 2020)

March 26, 2020 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

From the moment ‘Hi-Fi Lowlife’s opening track ‘Waiting on the Smoke to Clear’ kicks off with a swirling blast of electronic fuzziness, only for a set of gently resonating piano chords to carve through the aural smog […]

Frazey Ford “U Kin B The Sun” (Arts & Crafts, 2020)

February 28, 2020 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

After starting out with the retro folk band the Be Good Tanyas, for her third solo album since 2010, Vancouver-based artist Frazey Ford has all but completely eliminated the Americana influences that permeated her previous two […]

Katie Blount “Dark Water” (Independent, 2020)

February 17, 2020 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

‘Dark Water’ is a tough album to review, but for a reason that does British singer-songwriter Katie Blount’s nine-track debut no discredit whatsoever. The “problem” is that while ‘Dark Water’ packs several punches of the folk-tinged […]

Classic Americana Album: Various Artists “This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark”

January 22, 2020 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

Describing ‘This One’s For Him’ as a classic Americana album might seem surprising given it’s entirely made up of cover versions. Also, in no way does ‘This One’s For Him’ constitute a “breakthrough” moment in the […]