Album Reviews
Karen Matheson “Still Time”
A smooth-voiced Celtic offering amid the ghost of Robert Burns Karen Matheson is well known as the long term voice of Capercaillie though she has also produced 4 solo albums and now 5 with her most […]
Articles by Gordon Sharpe
Other stuff
AUK’s Chain Gang: The Band “Rag Mama Rag”
Following on from last week’s ‘Mama’ theme, here is one of my favourite Band tracks. It exemplifies the sort of raucous almost ramshackle sound at which they excelled and which proves irresistible. Not the best quality […]
Album Reviews
Terry Clarke “Walk Like a King: Songs For Dylan Thomas”
A Thoughtful and Sincere Meditation on a Great Poet. It’s sad that much can be learnt about Terry Clarke by way of the obituaries that followed his passing, in April 2020, at the age of 72. […]
Features
10 americana songs about horses
Here we have another in the ‘ten‘ series – ten songs with horses as the subject. You might think there would be dozens and for all I know there are – but I certainly spent some […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Lowell George “Thanks I’ll Eat It Here” (Warner Records, 1979)
Lowell George made this album, a melting pot of so many musical influences, because apparently, he was not happy with the way that Little Feat was heading, as he saw it, into jazz-rock territory. I can’t […]