Features
Forgotten Artists – Tandy
When Uncut released its influential Sounds of the New West cover CD in 1998 names like Josh Rouse, The Handsome Family and Lambchop were suddenly propelled on to the radar of a new generation of music […]
Articles by Clint West
Features
With A Little Help From My Friends: How we can all help to support smaller artists
As much as we might like things to be different, Americana is a fairly niche market within the music business. Most artists, with relatively few exceptions, operate at a small level. Many have very modest incomes […]
Album Reviews
Water and Sand “Catching Light” (Blue Rose Records, 2019)
Water and Sand are the collaborative project of established songwriters Todd Thibaud and Kim Taylor. ‘Catching Light’ is their second album together following a self-titled debut in 2016. Thibaud fronted The Courage Brothers before releasing the […]
Features
The best gigs of 2019: a personal reflection
“I think that live music is something that the internet can never kill” – Jim James (My Morning Jacket). In an age when we can access our favourite music in so many ways and so many […]
Album Reviews
The Deer “Do No Harm” (Keeled Scales, 2019)
The Deer are a five-piece band from Austin, TX. They describe themselves as ‘indie folk’, which is slightly disingenuous, because on this evidence they offer far more than that rather limiting label might suggest. Sure, there […]