Alasdair Fotheringham

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 […]

Interview – Forrest Van Tuyl

October 28, 2019 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

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 […]

Tim Grimm “Heart Land Again” (Cavalier, 2019)

October 21, 2019 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

‘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 […]

Bill Scorzari “Now I’m Free” (Independent, 2019)

October 9, 2019 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

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 […]

Yo Zushi “Unconditional Love” (TWGDOYP Records, 2019)

September 30, 2019 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

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 […]