David Jarman

Wayne Graham “1% Juice” (Hometown Caravan, 2020)

November 24, 2020 David Jarman 0

Wayne Graham, a musical partnership between brothers Kenny and Hayden Miles, badge themselves as an alt-country/Americana group, and this self-produced twelve-track album lives up to the billing, with a foot firmly in both camps. With roots […]

Classic Americana Albums: Ry Cooder “Bop Till You Drop” (Warners, 1979)

November 19, 2020 David Jarman 0

In his long and illustrious career Ry Cooder has cut out a unique niche with his reinterpretations of American blues and roots music, and never to greater effect than on his 1979 release ‘Bop Till You […]

Dawes “Good Luck With Whatever” (Rounder Records, 2020)

November 10, 2020 David Jarman 0

Nashville’s famed RCA studio A has a renowned roster of great recording sessions dating back to its birth in 1965, from the Beach Boys and BB King, to recent albums by Jason Isbell and Chris Stapleton. […]

St. Lorelei “Beast” (Independent, 2020)

October 23, 2020 David Jarman 0

St. Lorelei is a new band fronted by Jo Morris, following on from her 2017 debut EP. Based in New Orleans, ‘Beast’ features her dreamlike and ethereal vocals on eight songs, all self-penned with the exception […]

James Edwyn and the Borrowed Band “Before We Go” (Independent, 2020)

September 21, 2020 David Jarman 0

Glasgow-based James Edwyn and the Borrowed Band impressed with their 2017 album ‘High Fences’, rated a 9/10 on this site, and described as ‘The first great album of 2018’, and a follow-up release was scheduled for […]

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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