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? […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers

August 5, 2026 0

Includes tracks from My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams and MJ Lenderman among others. Cinema Music Group, Killphonic Records, and City Slang have announced Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 – Out of […]

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