Articles by Diccon Johnston

The debut album from Jimbo Pap occupies the border territory between outright country and indie rock. Gram Parsons is name-checked in the first song and somewhere along the way, Wilco passes through the mix. Jimbo Pap […]

This is the first solo album by Bard Edrington V and it has the inescapable air of creative freedom. The written style encapsulates a strong sense of time and place and his storytelling approach is acutely […]

It has been four years since Robert Forster released ‘Songs to Play’ and he has, as ever, taken “time to do my thing”. This has resulted in an album that is constrained in style yet expansive […]