Album Reviews
Peach & Quiet “Beautiful Thing”
Canadian duo build on promise of debut album with this stunning sophomore offering. Barely three weeks into the new year and I find myself with the good fortune to be listening to an album that will […]
Articles by Graeme Tait
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Album: Kris Kristofferson “Kristofferson”
As the swinging sixties with its mantra of peace and love disintegrated into the splintered seventies of disillusion, suspicion, and violence, an ex U.S. Army Captain would become the most unlikely of saviours with the songs […]
Album Reviews
Belle & Sebastian “Late Developers”
Glasgow mavericks deliver a second dose of feel-good factor pop music within nine months, still imbued with their usual lyrical sobriety. Barely nine months since the release of their last album ‘A Bit Of Previous’ and […]
Features
The First Time: Graeme Tait – Barclay James Harvest, Sheffield City Hall, 28th September 1977
The past is a puzzling acquaintance, sharing as it does all of the most momentous experiences of life’s journey whilst forever travelling in the opposite direction, each day carrying our memories just a little further from […]
Live Reviews
Live Review: Lauren Housley & The Northern Cowboys + Rob Nicklas, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 10th December 2022.
It’s been five years since Lauren Housley last appeared at Lincolnshire’s premier Americana music venue though tonight’s show should have taken place this time last year as part of Housley’s nationwide tour to promote her latest […]