Andrew Raw

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 […]

Album cover artwork for "Dreamers" by Wild Ponies

Wild Ponies “Dreamers”

September 4, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

Vibrant country music with heartwarming words of love. Wild Ponies are Doug and Telisha Williams, originally from The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, part of the Appalachian range, but now living in Nashville. This is their […]

Kyle Daniel “Kentucky Gold”

August 23, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

Enjoyable and varied southern rock with good, memorable melodies. The first track on this, Kyle Daniel’s debut album, is the hard rock, “hard man” song ‘Can’t Hold Me Back’ with him stating “I’m back, I’m bullet-proof, […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Big Star “September Gurls”

August 19, 2024 Andrew Raw 6

It was the early nineties and I had one of those momentous moments in my musical listening when I heard the fabulous ”Bandwagonesque” by AUK favourites Teenage Fanclub. At the time I was absolutely knocked out- […]

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Classic Clips: Dave Edmunds “Girls Talk” The Jools’ Annual Hootenanny – 31st December 2008

August 16, 2024 Andrew Raw 1

I have always loved this song, and here is a fabulous version on the Hootenanny. It is given the full treatment with horns, female backing vocals and, of course, a bit of boogie-woogie from Jools. This […]

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Video Premiere: Dean Owens “Face The Storm (The Buffalo)”

March 24, 2026 0

2025 was another extraordinary year for Scottish singer-songwriter Dean Owens. Last year started with a headline show at Celtic Connections in Glasgow to launch Owens’ acclaimed twelfth studio album, Spirit Ridge, before touring Australia with his […]

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Tracks

Furlined “Kill Devil Hills” – Listen

April 22, 2021 0

Furlined are a Bristol-based band formed in 2012 by singer-songwriter Neil Crossley and cellist Tegan Everett. ‘Kill Devil Hills’ is the title track of their upcoming new album which should be released this Summer. ‘Kill Devil […]

Videos

Video: Justin Rutledge “Easy”

March 9, 2023 1

Simple black and White line drawings reflect the stripped-down music in the video for Justin Rutledge’s ‘Easy’. The song lilts along as female backing vocals join Rutledge’s voice. Strings soar as the monochrome chromatic images of […]

Album Reviews

Conor Oberst “Salutations” (Nonesuch Records, 2017)

April 27, 2017 0

The lengthy follow up to last year’s acid confessional ‘Ruminations’ is an expanded version of that self-same album but with added band, tracks and dareonesayit self-acceptance. The bitter starkness has been replaced and perhaps displaced by an […]

Articles by Andrew Raw

Brendan Forrest “Daydreaming Music Fiend”

Wild Ponies “Dreamers”

Kyle Daniel “Kentucky Gold”

For The Sake Of The Song: Big Star “September Gurls”

Classic Clips: Dave Edmunds “Girls Talk” The Jools’ Annual Hootenanny – 31st December 2008

Video Premiere: Dean Owens “Face The Storm (The Buffalo)”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”