Alasdair Fotheringham

Lisa Bastoni “Backyard Birds”

July 1, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

Pared-down, tangy East Coast Folk with a warm heart and wise head. One of the pandemic’s many effects on Americana music is there’s been a lot of introspective, person-with-acoustic-guitar-staring-out-from-their-back-porch kind of material getting published recently. After […]

Artwork for Daimh album The Rough Bounds

AUK’s Chain Gang: Dàimh “The Rough Bounds”

June 14, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

The connection here is as much about the music as it is the places where they were made as it is (sort of) the Scotch whisky. The writer of last week’s AUK Chain Gang song, ‘Dram […]

Image for Misophone album And So Sets The Sun On A Burning Sea

Misophone “And So Sinks the Sun on a Burning Sea”

June 14, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

No matter how (un) crowded the market for throwback lo-fi surreal ‘folk’ music, Misophone shine in a league of their own. If ‘And So Sinks The Sun on a Burning Sea’ were a film and not […]

A Night To Remember: Jason Molina & Ron Sexsmith, Granada, Spain, 23rd June 2007

May 25, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

Full confession: when I went to this concert, I had no idea who Jason Molina was and I was only interested in Ron Sexsmith because I’d been given one of his albums, played it once, liked […]

Andrew Farriss “Andrew Farriss”

April 9, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

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 media […]