Back in the time before AI, when songwriters sat at typewriters in New York’s Brill Building or Holland-Dozier-Holland churned out hits for Motown, a small-town country girl from Kentucky called Sharon Lee Myers was attempting to […]
An innovative electronica-infused approach to melodic Irish folk. The upward trajectory of Belfast-based Joshua Burnside has been well-documented in the pages of AMA UK, such that many readers will be familiar with his brand of electronica-infused […]
An existential journey through the former cowboy’s troubled times. Redolent of The Byrds ‘Sweetheart of The Rodeo’, ‘Vita’ is the new release from Addison Lea Thompson on Cowpuncher Records, the album title giving a clue as […]
Friendships, life and loss inspire grunge-influenced slacker rock debut. With their first album, ‘So Brand New’, Toronto singer-songwriter CJ Wiley (they/them) has gathered eight distinctive songs in a captivating mix of rock, grunge and americana that’s […]
Eclectic mix of genres and self-critical reflections following traumatic times. Nashville’s celebrated guitarist and singer-songwriter Sean Thompson released his first album ‘Weird Ears’ in 2022. That was very much a country record in which he demonstrated […]
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