Andy Davidson

Jason Molina at Apolo Barcelona 23 October 2009

Classic Clips: Songs: Ohia “Farewell Transmission” – The Earl in Atlanta, 2002

October 24, 2025 Andy Davidson 0

Last summer, I was fortunate enough to review the album “I Will Swim to You – A Tribute to Jason Molina“. While researching Molina, I found Todd Chandler’s meditative documentary, ‘The Road Becomes What You Leave’ […]

Coyle Girelli “Out of This Town”

October 20, 2025 Andy Davidson 0

Mutual respect and a classy collaboration. The gist – it has been more than ten years since Coyle Girelli co-wrote with country singer/songwriter Mac Davis. Davis wrote two of Presley’s biggest hits, ‘In the Ghetto’ and […]

Sloan “Based on the Best Seller”

October 16, 2025 Andy Davidson 1

Enduring Anglophiles. The fourteenth studio album from this Toronto-based rock quartet. First single ‘Live Forever’ reveals a nostalgia discernible on many of the other tracks on this album. One can’t help listening to “Based on the […]

Tim Grimm “Bones of Trees”

September 25, 2025 Andy Davidson 0

Fine-grained songs from a craftsman’s hands. “Folk songs transmit history and stories, serve as a means of personal and collective expression and entertainment. Through their narrative, they connect generations.” AI proved useful when asked for the […]

For the Sake of the Song: Hard Working Americans “Stomp and Holler”

September 4, 2025 Andy Davidson 0

News from the Neal Casal Foundation back in June and the couple of tracks our editor chose over the summer got me reminiscing once again back to 2014, when Casal, as a founding member of the […]

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

September 21, 2026 2

If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]

Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

September 21, 2026 0

A cycle of Appalachian folk songs from writer and activist Si Kahn, subtitled Songs for Strong Kentucky Women The subtitle for this album is “Si Kahn’s Songs for Strong Kentucky Women”. Si Kahn is one of […]

Ad for American Beauty album 5th December 1970

For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”