Andrew Raw

Essentials: The Top Ten American Aquarium Songs

December 5, 2024 Andrew Raw 2

I am a huge fan of American Aquarium’s muscular alt-country with its great tunes and often anthemic choruses. They put the country into their alt-country with a liberal dose of wonderful pedal steel, which is never […]

Andrew Weiss and Friends “the world’s smallest violin”

October 31, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

Back to the seventies with this thoughtful and well-written lively soft-rock. This is Andrew Weiss’ sixth album with his “Friends” and it’s a record that takes you back to the seventies with its jaunty, often piano-based, […]

Album cover artwork for Preeper Rhaye MacKay "Wood and Wire"

Preeper Rhaye MacKay “Wood & Wire”

October 31, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

Atmospheric traditional Appalachian folk with beautiful harmonies. Vocalist Jessica Rhaye, guitarist Bill Preeper and multi-instrumentalist Sandy MacKay were together in the Canadian folk-rock band The Ramshackle Parade, which has produced two albums “Just Like a Woman […]

Curtis Eller’s American Circus “Another Nice Mess”

October 8, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

Quirky, interesting and original themes backed by sparse banjo-picking. You get the feeling that Curtis Eller is a truly larger-than-life character. “Another Nice Mess”, his eighth full-length album, takes you aback with the originality of its […]

Brendan Forrest “Daydreaming Music Fiend”

September 26, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

An impressive mix of bluegrass, blues and Celtic folk with a hint of jazz. Chicago-born Brendan Forrest has now moved to the mountains of south-west Colorado and on this, his debut album, you can hear the […]