Alasdair Fotheringham

Alan Barnosky “Lonesome Road” (Independent, 2020)

January 21, 2020 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

Alan Barnosky’s sophomore EP ‘Lonesome Road’ sees the Michigan-born musician switch from a mainly single guitar and voice format in his debut album ‘Old Freight’ to a full-blown bluegrass album complete with a multi-member backing band. […]

Paul Kelly “Songs From The South 1985 – 2019” (Cooking Vinyl, 2019)

January 2, 2020 Alasdair Fotheringham 1

It’s a point of pride for Australians that they don’t beat around the bush. So when it comes to reviewing ‘Songs From the South 1985-2019’, by one of that country’s greatest modern-day singer-songwriters, you could maybe […]

Betsy Phillips “Like We’re Talking” (Independent, 2019)

December 4, 2019 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

In the 1970s cult science-fiction comedy novel ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, given the billions of planets floating around the universe, the description for Planet Earth is limited to two words: “mostly harmless”. And, regrettably, […]

Karen & The Sorrows “Guaranteed Broken Heart” (Ocean Born Mary Music, 2019)

November 6, 2019 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

One of the music industry’s most time-honoured clichés is that an artist’s third album represents a critical creative crossroads – even way back in the 1980s, Essex folk singer Billy Bragg wryly subtitled his immortal […]

AmericanA to Z – Ray Wylie Hubbard

October 29, 2019 Alasdair Fotheringham 1

“Beans and biscuit in my cupboard, listen to Ray Wylie Hubbard!” Houston-born Hayes Carll all but bellows on one of his early tracks, ‘Down the Road Tonight’, just to make it perfectly clear that he, for […]

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Luke Winslow-King “Coast of Light”

March 24, 2026 0

An impressive blues-influenced mixture of laid-back and edgier numbers. Coast of Light is Luke Winslow-King’s ninth album after having debuted with Luke Winslow-King in 2008. It is a bit of an outlier from many of the […]

Live Review: Beans On Toast + Ruth Lyon + Bassie Gracie, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham – 11th March 2026

March 24, 2026 0

The night opened with Bassie Gracie, a bold spoken word poet grounded in hope, proclaiming that making art can be the remedy to worry. This Celtic-and-proud waif delivered rhythmic anti-racism with barely veiled anger at the […]

artwork for The Montvales album "Path Of Totality"

The Montvales “Path Of Totality”

March 24, 2026 0

Folk-tinged harmonies and sophisticated indie-pop for turbulent times. Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson are originally from Knoxville, Tennessee – together they make up The Montvales. During their middle school years, the duo started out by busking […]

Articles by Alasdair Fotheringham

Alan Barnosky “Lonesome Road” (Independent, 2020)

Paul Kelly “Songs From The South 1985 – 2019” (Cooking Vinyl, 2019)

Betsy Phillips “Like We’re Talking” (Independent, 2019)

Karen & The Sorrows “Guaranteed Broken Heart” (Ocean Born Mary Music, 2019)

AmericanA to Z – Ray Wylie Hubbard

Luke Winslow-King “Coast of Light”

Live Review: Beans On Toast + Ruth Lyon + Bassie Gracie, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham – 11th March 2026

The Montvales “Path Of Totality”

Pat Carter and Luis de Cicco hit the road to promote new live album

Andy Thomas “Highway Junkie”