David Jarman

Essentials: The Top 10 Ry Cooder Albums

May 10, 2024 David Jarman 4

Ry Cooder occupies a very special place in the canon of Americana, as an instrumentalist, songwriter, collaborator across many genres and interpreter of American traditional music. A highly rated guitarist, especially on slide where he is […]

Live Review: Black Deer Live London Launch, The Crypt St Martins, London – April 25th 2024

May 3, 2024 David Jarman 2

The launch event featured Morganway, Hollie Rogers and Her All Star Band and Gina Larner. The atmospheric Crypt underneath London’s St Martin’s Church on Trafalgar Square was the perfect setting for Black Deer Live’s London launch […]

Artwork for Bacon Brothers album "Ballad of the Brothers"

The Bacon Brothers “Ballad of the Brothers”

May 1, 2024 David Jarman 0

Brothers Michael and Kevin Bacon – film and TV composer and Hollywood actor in their other creative lives – produce a compelling mix of songs in their twelfth release. ‘Ballad of the Brothers’ is the twelfth […]

Lolly Lee “Lolly Lee”

April 10, 2024 David Jarman 1

Self-titled solo release from Alabama native has echoes of fellow Alabama native Lucinda Williams, with fine storytelling lyrics at its heart. Lolly Lee is a new name to the UK Americana scene, with this her self-titled […]

artwork for Buffalo Skinners album "Picking Up What You're Putting Down".

The Buffalo Skinners “Picking Up What You’re Putting Down”

April 5, 2024 David Jarman 0

Turn up the volume in the car for rocking retro set with US West Coast, garage band scene and folk-rock stylings. Beginning life as a busking band in Scarborough, the Buffalo Skinners’ new album ‘Picking Up […]

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 […]

Articles by David Jarman