Helen Jones

AUK’s Chain Gang: Jesse Daniel “California Highway”

February 28, 2022 Helen Jones 0

Our last Chain Gang entry was ‘Amarillo Highway’ by Terry Allen, so I decided to take the rather direct route (pun intended) of going from one highway to another, more specifically from a Texan one to […]

Under The Rug “Dear Adeline”

February 25, 2022 Helen Jones 0

A five-year project that proves some things are worth taking your time over and may be even better for it. When filmmaker Richard Linklater made 2014’s ‘Boyhood’, he went about it in the unconventional sense that […]

Anaïs Mitchell “Anaïs Mitchell”

February 10, 2022 Helen Jones 0

A long awaited but anything but disappointing comeback with a delicate beauty and heartfelt lyrics that are lifted even more by a choice of clever collaborators. At the beginning of the pandemic, nine months pregnant Anaïs […]

Police Dog Hogan “Overground”

January 14, 2022 Helen Jones 0

Well-written and structured, this album showcases some great songwriting that was largely facilitated by the pandemic. Like so many other recent albums, Police Dog Hogan’s newest couldn’t escape the influence of the pandemic finding its way […]

Killers and crowd-pleasing epics: Helen Jones’s Review of 2021

December 16, 2021 Helen Jones 2

Sadly, still no shows for me in 2021 (an autoimmune disorder means I’m operating with an abundance of caution), but hey, at least there has been a great raft of studio albums to keep me entertained. […]