Clint West

Ash Mountain “Black Gold EP” (Independent, 2019)

October 29, 2019 Clint West 0

Manchester’s Ash Mountain have followed up last year’s three-track ‘Boom’ EP with a new four-track EP ‘Black Gold’. The band revolves around songwriters Tim Scott and Matt Jones and whereas ‘Boom’ showed initial promise, the new […]

Sam Outlaw + Lydia Luce, Night & Day Café, Manchester, 2nd October 2019

October 15, 2019 Clint West 0

Sam Outlaw could probably have been forgiven if he had been feeling a bit jaded. This was the 24th date of a punishing 28 gigs in 31 days European tour. On top of that, he had […]

Wilco, Albert Hall, Manchester, 27th September 2019

October 7, 2019 Clint West 2

To say that Jeff Tweedy’s band have, over the years, become something of an Americana institution is to put the ‘under’ well and truly into ‘understatement’. Such is the band’s stature that their gigs nowadays might […]

The Empty Pages “The Wanderer” (Independent, 2019)

October 2, 2019 Clint West 0

The Empty Pages are an acoustic duo from Stamford, Lincolnshire. ‘The Wanderer’ is the follow-up to their 2017 self-titled album. The result is a pop-folk collection that doesn’t demand too much of the listener. Many artists […]

Jeremy Ivey “The Dream and the Dreamer” (Anti Records, 2019)

September 11, 2019 Clint West 0

Jeremy Ivey is probably best known to most Americana followers as the guitarist in Margo Price’s band and indeed, her husband of eleven years. The pair formerly worked together in the country-rock band Buffalo Clover. With […]