Guy Lincoln

Daddy Long Legs + Thee Windom Earles, The Lantern, Halifax, 2nd February 2020

February 14, 2020 Guy Lincoln 0

Halifax has come up in the world don’t ya know, such that it has reached the giddy heights of (almost) favourable comparison to a minor neighbourhood in the eastern fringes of London; having been dubbed ‘Shoreditch […]

Vera Van Heeringen “Won’t Be Broken” (Wood & Steel, 2020)

February 14, 2020 Guy Lincoln 0

Look, there are a lot of acoustic-based female singer-songwriters out there who are recording and performing in the same arena as Vera Van Heeringen; no need to name them here as this review is part of […]

The Haden Triplets “The Family Songbook” (Trimeter Records/Thirty Tigers, 2020)

February 11, 2020 Guy Lincoln 0

That ‘Family Songbook’ sounds so routinely Haden Triplets; just like we might expect it to if we’d heard (and enjoyed) their first album on Third Man Records, is perhaps something of a wonder. Despite the heft […]

Jack Marion and the Pearl Snap Prophets “When the Well Runs Dry” (Independent, 2020)

January 22, 2020 Guy Lincoln 0

‘When the Well Runs dry’ is the debut album by Jack Marion and the Pearl Snap Prophets. They’re probably new to you (and me) but before we go into detail about them and the record let’s […]

Beans on Toast “Inevitable Train Wreck” (Beans on Toast Music, 2019)

December 11, 2019 Guy Lincoln 0

Beans on Toast may be a creature of habit, releasing, as he does, a new record each year on his birthday, December 1st. He’s been doing this for over 10 years now with his latest instalment, […]

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

September 21, 2026 2

If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]

Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

September 21, 2026 0

A cycle of Appalachian folk songs from writer and activist Si Kahn, subtitled Songs for Strong Kentucky Women The subtitle for this album is “Si Kahn’s Songs for Strong Kentucky Women”. Si Kahn is one of […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”