Andrew Raw

Robin Adams “The Beggar”

November 10, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

Lo-fi folk reflecting dark times for the writer. “The Beggar” had its genesis as a collection of “quite rough and raw” demo recordings, released in 2018 on Bandcamp. Robin Adams then saw how the songs evolved […]

Josienne Clarke “Far From Nowhere”

October 13, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

Sparse, still, lo-fi folk with beautiful and stirring vocals. “Far From Nowhere” is Josienne Clarke’s sixth album. She started in 2019 with “In All Weather” and her last album was 2024’s “Parenthesis, I”. “Far From Nowhere” […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Teenage Fanclub

October 1, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

Teenage Fanclub were formed in Glasgow in 1989 by guitarists Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley, drummer Francis Macdonald and bassist Gerard Love. Blake, McGinlay and Macdonald had all initially been in the same band, the Boy […]

Woody Guthrie “Woody At Home- Vol 1+2”

September 26, 2025 Andrew Raw 1

These home recordings of previously unreleased songs, including some previously not recorded, are a great historical document. The story of this album starts when Woody Guthrie got his first publishing deal in 1950 with Howie Richmond’s […]

Album cover artwork for "ha ha, now i'm sad" by Cooper Kenward

Cooper Kenward “ha ha, now i’m sad”

September 17, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

Words on the existential questions of life set to top-quality seventies pop with added country. “ha ha, now i’m sad” is LA-based Cooper Kenward’s third album after “Cooper Kenward” (2022) and “Dying in a Diner” (2024). […]