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artwork for Elaine Palmer album "Half Moon Rising"

Elaine Palmer “Half Moon Rising”

May 21, 2024 Chas Lacey 1

English and American roots underlying a blossoming collaboration. For an artist who regularly crosses the Atlantic, it must be satisfying to find your songs featuring in the airline’s music library. Elaine Palmer’s 2017 release ‘Still Life’ […]

artwork for Small Town Jones album "Kintsugi"

Small Town Jones “Kintsugi”

May 9, 2024 Chas Lacey 0

Japanese art form inspires reflections on healing and hope. When Slaid Cleaves and Rod Picott wrote ‘Broke Down’ they described a double-crossed heart as “cracked and shattered, left in pieces like it never even mattered”. The […]

artwork for Andrea & Mud album "Institutionalized"

Andrea & Mud “Institutionalized”

April 19, 2024 Chas Lacey 0

Troubled minds provide inspiration for the gifted Atlanta surf country duo. Take a converted barn in rural Georgia, two accomplished musicians in enforced confinement and what do you get? Happily, in this case, a very fine […]

Classic Clip: Tracy Chapman “Fast Car” Wembley Stadium – 11th June 1988

April 11, 2024 Chas Lacey 0

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em” It’s Wembley Stadium, 11th June 1988, and Stevie Wonder has just had to postpone his slot at the Nelson Mandela concert at […]

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Cedric Burnside “Hill Country Love”

March 27, 2024 Chas Lacey 0

Mid-life reflection and authentic blues from the Mississippi Hill Country. Ask someone to name a Grammy-award winning drummer turned guitarist who is also the lead singer of his band and has appeared in several films and […]

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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 […]

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

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Interview: Christopher Rees

August 24, 2017 0

A delayed train meant I had a moment to use the ‘library’ on the platform provided by WH Smiths, and a rapid peruse of Uncut Magazine, in which I stumbled across a review of ‘The Nashville […]

Album Reviews

John Flanagan Trio “Honest Man” (Independent, 2018)

May 24, 2018 0

‘Honest Man’ is the latest album release from ‘Australiana’ artists the John Flanagan Trio and it’s a solid addition to the folk, bluegrass and country music genres. The songs are varied and well written. There is […]

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Jade Turner “Breathe”

March 13, 2025 0

Self-aware cathartic storytelling at its finest. A proud member of the Misipawistik Cree Nation, Jade Turner was raised in Northern Manitoba, Canada, with an upbringing rooted in the art of storytelling. “Breathe” is her third album, […]

Articles by Chas Lacey

Elaine Palmer “Half Moon Rising”

Small Town Jones “Kintsugi”

Andrea & Mud “Institutionalized”

Classic Clip: Tracy Chapman “Fast Car” Wembley Stadium – 11th June 1988

Cedric Burnside “Hill Country Love”

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”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”