David Jarman

More People Really Should Know About: Brennen Leigh

January 20, 2026 David Jarman 0

My introduction to Brennen Leigh was on the rather fabulous Outlaw Country Cruise out of Miami in March last year, one of some 30 artists appearing, including Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, and John Hiatt. She made […]

Nick Lowe at Ealing Blues Festival July 2019

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Nick Lowe

December 17, 2025 David Jarman 0

I must admit to approaching this assignment with some trepidation, it feeling just a touch disloyal to be dissing even one album by a favourite artist, especially having decided I’d pick my all-time favourite, Nick Lowe. […]

Live Review: Hannah Aldridge + Jason Charles Miller, Cart and Horses, Stratford, London – 25th November 2025

December 15, 2025 David Jarman 0

I describe myself as a live music junkie – I can never get enough – and the particular joys for me include favourite artists, much loved venues, and of course new artists and new venues. The […]

Classic Clips: Diana Jones “Henry Russell’s Last Words” – BBC Four Songwriters Circle, Bush Hall, London, 2012

November 28, 2025 David Jarman 2

If asked to name americana artists who most faithfully carry the spirit of the roots of the genre in their original songwriting, Diana Jones will always be in the forefront of my mind, along with Gillian […]

Ry Cooder at McGlohon Theater, Charlotte, NC, August 19, 2015

The Top 10 Americana Songs Of All Time: David Jarman

November 6, 2025 David Jarman 3

Following on from Fred Arnold‘s choices, the first thing to say is – what a challenge! So many great songs in the genre, and, at least in part, I have gone with Fred leaning towards songs […]

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Chris Knight - Chris Knight
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Hurray for the Riff Raff - Live Forever
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Old 97s - Too Far to Care
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R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
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Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
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Wilco - summerteeth
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Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
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Rolling Stones - Some Girls
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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 […]

Album Reviews

Marisa Anderson “Cloud Corner” (Independent, 2018)

July 10, 2018 0

Marisa Anderson is a Portland based guitarist with several previous albums to her name, whose latest release ‘Cloud Corner‘ continues along a path of guitar instrumental pictures in sound. Here Marisa Anderson has found herself wandering […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: Mercury Rev + Nina Savary, The Junction, Cambridge, 8th November 2024

November 21, 2024 0

Mercury Rev are out touring their excellent new album “Born Horses” which raises all sorts of questions – the new album has a refreshed musical palette to support the new songs delivered by Jonathan Donahue in […]

Album Reviews

Victoria Liedtke & Jason Ringenberg “More Than Words Can Tell”

March 22, 2024 0

Classic Country sympathetically reinterpreted and revamped for the twenty-first century. At first glance the collaboration of classically trained Victoria Liedtke, whose previous work includes the longstanding New York City tribute project, ‘The Loser’s Lounge’ as well […]

Articles by David Jarman

More People Really Should Know About: Brennen Leigh

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Nick Lowe

Live Review: Hannah Aldridge + Jason Charles Miller, Cart and Horses, Stratford, London – 25th November 2025

Classic Clips: Diana Jones “Henry Russell’s Last Words” – BBC Four Songwriters Circle, Bush Hall, London, 2012

The Top 10 Americana Songs Of All Time: David Jarman

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”