Chas Lacey

artwork for Kate Rusby album "When They All Looked Up"

Kate Rusby “When They All Looked Up”

May 2, 2025 Chas Lacey 0

Traditional and original folk music, beautifully delivered with a contemporary feel. Seasonal Christmas offerings apart, this is Kate Rusby’s first album since her collection of covers on ‘Hand Me Down’ in 2020. As such it will […]

artwork for Pete Mancini album "American Equator"

Pete Mancini “American Equator”

April 24, 2025 Chas Lacey 0

Americana Power Pop examining identity, story, spirituality and grief. It’s quite a distance from New York City to Water Valley, Mississippi, a small town in the deep south of the USA, not too far from Tupelo. […]

Classic Clips: Jackie DeShannon “When You Walk In The Room” – Later with Jools Holland, 2012

April 4, 2025 Chas Lacey 2

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 […]

artwork for Joshua Burnside album "Teeth of Time"

Joshua Burnside “Teeth of Time”

April 3, 2025 Chas Lacey 0

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 […]

artwork for Addison Lea Thompson album "Vita"

Addison Lea Thompson “Vita”

March 21, 2025 Chas Lacey 0

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 […]