Interviews
Interview – Forrest Van Tuyl
Forrest Van Tuyl (aka An American Forrest) spends six months of the year working as a cowboy on the trails of some of the remotest wilderness areas of Oregon and the other six months writing and […]
Articles by Alasdair Fotheringham
Album Reviews
Tim Grimm “Heart Land Again” (Cavalier, 2019)
‘Heart Land Again’ is Tim Grimm’s reworking of his debut album ‘Heart Land’, published in 1999 and inspired by the singer-songwriter’s life-changing move from Los Angeles to an 80-acre farm in rural Indiana. Featuring two new […]
Album Reviews
Bill Scorzari “Now I’m Free” (Independent, 2019)
Once or twice a year, an album rolls onto the scene that is quickly and widely hailed as a game-changer. But if ‘Now I’m Free’ scores a few remarkable goals, it doesn’t, at least for this […]
Album Reviews
Yo Zushi “Unconditional Love” (TWGDOYP Records, 2019)
With publicity notes telling us that Japanese-Anglo artist Yo Zushi has spent a decade “bankrupting small labels with uncommercial music” and which describe his musical status as “absolutely obscure”, before first listening to ‘Unconditional Love’, you […]
Album Reviews
The Rails “Cancel The Sun” (Psychonaut Sounds/Thirty Tigers, 2019)
“Something is slipping my mind” Kami Thompson sings on one of the multiple not-so-hidden gems on ‘Cancel The Sun’. But in fact when it comes to ‘Cancel the Sun’ qualifying as a folk-rock landmark of 2019, […]