Features
Helen Jones’s Review of 2019
Reflecting on 2019, there has been a lot of quality music released – including fantastic records from Sturgill Simpson, The Highwomen and Tyler Childers to name a few – so much excellent music in fact that […]
Articles by Helen Jones
Album Reviews
Steep Canyon Rangers “North Carolina Songbook” (Yep Roc Records, 2019)
Live albums can often feel a pointless affair: a selection of songs you already know usually played to a lesser standard than the studio version, a crowd you weren’t part of, cheering in the background, and […]
Album Reviews
Wayne Hancock “Man of the Road: The Early Bloodshot Years” (Bloodshot Records, 2019)
“Got to make it day to night in El Paso / I’m going there as fast as I can go / I’ll take the road anyday / ‘Cause that’s the kind of life I’ve made / […]
Album Reviews
Joshua Radin “Here, Right Now” (Nettwerk, 2019)
It’s hard to begin listening to a Joshua Radin record without it conjuring visions of the kind of melodramatic scenes that might feature in a certain breed of US television drama. Radin first found success in […]
Album Reviews
Sidney Lindner & The Silver Wilderness Collective “Summer Ghosts / Nightfalls” (Broken Sparrow and Burst & Bloom Records, 2019)
“Sweet brother moonchild / We’d talk til all hours / You told me about that time that you had all the power / You brought the sunlight / The rain brought the flowers,” Sidney Lindner sings […]