David Chalfen

Live Review: Hattie Whitehead + Tessa Rose Jackson + Edward Randell, St Pancras Old Church, London – 3rd April 2025

April 11, 2025 David Chalfen 0

The venue is always inspiring, with its design and operation as a fully functioning church set in a surprisingly green and peaceful enclave just minutes from St Pancras station and amidst the gritty inner-city locale of […]

Live Review: Dean Owens and The Sinners Green Note, London – 25th July 2024

August 9, 2024 David Chalfen 1

Amongst the numerous plaudits Dean Owens has gathered, he has been voted British Americana Artist of the Year for the last three years on this very website so this review will if nothing else be reassuring […]

Live Review: L.A. Edwards + Jade Jackson, The Grace, London – 10th July 2024

July 25, 2024 David Chalfen 1

To the heart of Islington on yet another autumnal July evening. L.A. Edwards are on their first European tour as headliners. A previous support tour with Lucinda Williams is a fine way to bolster credibility and […]

Live Review: Ernest Aines, Green Note, London – 25th Jan 2024

February 6, 2024 David Chalfen 0

Mention an “Australian folk hero” and most folk will name Ned Kelly but tonight it’s Ernest Aines who gets the accolades. Aines has been hoovering up the superlatives in his native land where his touring portfolio […]

Live Review: The Goddamsels + Holly Henderson, The Betsey Trotwood London – 24th Jan 2024

February 2, 2024 David Chalfen 0

This is the first UK visit from the Alberta based duo The Goddamsels. Does anyone else notice how Canadian musician visits to Europe are often timetabled to take them away from their own harsh winter rigours? […]

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Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

March 20, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new song from British slacker twang quartet Brown Horse, the third and final single from their upcoming album Total Dive […]

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

March 20, 2026 1

Danny George Wilson delivers a reflective and beautifully crafted set of songs exploring loss, memory, and the difficult business of moving on. Danny George Wilson follows up the Danny & The Champions of the World album, […]

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

March 20, 2026 0

Tampa-born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Thomas Dollbaum has announced his new album Birds of Paradise, “a goodbye letter to lost loved ones and former selves,” which will come out on May 22 via Dear Life Records, and […]

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 […]

Interviews

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 […]

Interviews

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 […]

Columns

What should I do, Americana UK?

November 5, 2020 0

There was an eerie and, it has to be said, eldritch disturbance in the agony Aunt and Uncle conclave of Americana UK. A stygian darkness had fallen over the office and the sounds of many feet […]

Album Reviews

Jim Keller “Spark and Flame”

December 7, 2022 0

Great musicianship with eighties influences. Jim Keller was the guitarist and chief songwriter for the San Francisco group, Tommy Tutone, who had a couple of power-pop hits in the eighties, the most famous being ‘867-5309/ Jenny’. […]

Album Reviews

Jesse Matas ”Tamarock” (StoNote, 2018)

November 22, 2018 0

With its opening that feels like a lost track from Bill Callaghan on a song with Nicolai Dunger on the ‘Tranquil Isolation‘ sessions, the listener is immediately hooked. ‘Tamarack’ (the song concerned) is a delight that […]

Articles by David Chalfen

Live Review: Hattie Whitehead + Tessa Rose Jackson + Edward Randell, St Pancras Old Church, London – 3rd April 2025

Live Review: Dean Owens and The Sinners Green Note, London – 25th July 2024

Live Review: L.A. Edwards + Jade Jackson, The Grace, London – 10th July 2024

Live Review: Ernest Aines, Green Note, London – 25th Jan 2024

Live Review: The Goddamsels + Holly Henderson, The Betsey Trotwood London – 24th Jan 2024

Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

Classic Clips: Brown Horse “Wipers”, Newport 2024

Jim Lauderdale “Country Super Hits Volume 2”