Fiona Golden

Dave Steel “Wooden Music”

May 12, 2025 Fiona Golden 2

“Salvation for a moment is some music I don’t recognise”. Roaming in the desert, searching for deliverance or truth, is a tale old as recorded history. In The Red Book, psychologist Carl Jung observed that, in […]

Track Dogs “Tracks Laid, Tracks Covered”

April 29, 2025 Fiona Golden 0

An anthology of almost 20 years of Americana rock. For someone like this writer with very little in the way of an attention span, a 31-count tracklist on a single album is nothing short of daunting. […]

Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters “Good Morning Sunshine”

April 14, 2025 Fiona Golden 0

Joyfully keeping the faith. It’s one thing to form a band full of talented women, it’s another to create an expansive collective along the Pacific coast of over a dozen women in bluegrass, country, and Americana […]

Live Review: Morgan Wade + Karley Scott Collins, Sammy Harrison, O2 Forum Kentish Town, London – 25th March 2025

April 7, 2025 Fiona Golden 0

Morgan Wade has just wrapped up her Europe leg of the ‘Obsessed’ Tour and made a stop in north London. Supported by Brighton-based songwriter Sammy Harrison and Nashville’s Karley Scott Collins, the London gig made for […]

Moss Henry “Gone Away”

April 1, 2025 Fiona Golden 0

Newcomer Moss Henry delivers fresh authenticity. You don’t normally get country music coming out of the Caribbean. But in a dispatch from the US Virgin Islands comes the debut album of Moss Henry, a rugged new […]

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Old 97s - Too Far to Care
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Wilco - summerteeth
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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

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

Matt York “Gently Used”

June 16, 2022 0

A gracefully simple albeit complex tale of what York describes as “second-tier love” New Englander, Matt York hopes that this record “could see him outgrowing his regional successes in favour of national headlining tours” and, who […]

Videos

Video: Eric Bibb “Ridin'”

April 14, 2023 0

Like the coal firing a steam engine Erib Bibb delivers a scorching performance in the video for ‘Ridin’’. Building from a slow simmer to a full flame he retells the struggle of the Civil Right movement, […]

Album Reviews

Jimmy Fretwell “Analog Dream”

February 5, 2026 0

Acoustic intimacy draws on thirty years of songwriting rooted in the deep south. Jimmy Fretwell, formerly Jef Fretwell, grew up in Georgia and spent a decade criss-crossing the American south, frequenting bars and backrooms, coffee houses […]

Articles by Fiona Golden

Dave Steel “Wooden Music”

Track Dogs “Tracks Laid, Tracks Covered”

Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters “Good Morning Sunshine”

Live Review: Morgan Wade + Karley Scott Collins, Sammy Harrison, O2 Forum Kentish Town, London – 25th March 2025

Moss Henry “Gone Away”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”