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Album Reviews

Jordan Tice “Motivational Speakeasy” (Paddle Records, 2020)

September 15, 2020 Jason McDonald 1
Jordan Tice has made an album of music which draws upon the guitar fingerpicking tradition of earlier Americana artists like John Fahey and Leo Kottke.  Tice uses his own quirky lyrics and flashes of humour which […]
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AmericanA to Z: The Tragically Hip

September 8, 2020 Jason McDonald 5
The Tragically Hip are the biggest (and some might say best) Canadian band to not make much of an impact outside of Canada.  The band from Kingston, Ontario consisting of five school friends who played together […]
Album Reviews

Justin Wells “The United State” (Singular Records, 2020)

September 3, 2020 Jason McDonald 0
Justin Wells’ new solo record ‘The United State’ released on Singular Records is a narrative which Wells has written describing the journey between birth and death.  It is bookended by two short instrumental pieces with the […]
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Jeff Kelly “When the World Was Younger” (Green Monkey Records, 2020)

August 10, 2020 Jason McDonald 0
The question which will be asked by future generations will be “What did you do during the pandemic of 2020?”.  Which most of us will be able to reply that we gained weight, tried to make […]
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David Ramirez “My Love Is A Hurricane” (Thirty Tigers, 2020)

July 15, 2020 Jason McDonald 0
David Ramirez is releasing his fifth album ‘My Love Is A Hurricane’ via SweetWorld/Thirty Tigers, the second not self-produced after first using an outside producer on 2017’s ‘We’re Not Going Anywhere’. This time that role goes […]

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Sam Grassie “Burning Of Auchindoun” – flames take you, and be damned

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March 25, 2026 0

Video Premiere: Brock Davis “Nowhere Near Ready”

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Luke Winslow-King “Coast of Light”

Album Reviews
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Live Review: Beans On Toast + Ruth Lyon + Bassie Gracie, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham – 11th March 2026

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artwork for The Montvales album "Path Of Totality"

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Sam Grassie “Burning Of Auchindoun” – flames take you, and be damned

March 25, 2026 0
There is something exciting going on in the world of folk, at least it seems that way, as we seem to be going through one of those periods of renewal when a crop of astonishing musicians […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Brock Davis “Nowhere Near Ready”

March 25, 2026 0
Here’s the video premiere of the heartfelt new single from Santa Cruz, California-based singer-songwriter Brock Davis. The notes tumble and roll from Davis’s guitar in a stream of melody while his reflective, intimate vocal flows over […]
Album cover artwork for Luke Winslow-King "Coast of Light"
Album Reviews

Luke Winslow-King “Coast of Light”

March 24, 2026 0
An impressive blues-influenced mixture of laid-back and edgier numbers. Coast of Light is Luke Winslow-King’s ninth album after having debuted with Luke Winslow-King in 2008. It is a bit of an outlier from many of the […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2
While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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Inaugural Folk Album Of The Year nominees announced

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The Folk Album of the Year Award has revealed its first-ever shortlist: nine outstanding albums released in Britain and Ireland in 2025. The artists behind each project range in age, geography, background and style — a […]
Album Reviews

Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

May 22, 2024 2
Going wild about jangly guitar corker from ex-Mutton Bird. It’s always interesting how people react to new music and on viewing a couple of videos from this brilliant album, one astute individual wrote, having looked at […]
Album Reviews

Jeremy Tuplin “I Was An Astronaut” (Folkwit Records,2017)

December 15, 2017 1
Alternate space folk singer-songwriter Jeremy Tuplin provides the listener with a series of unique sounds on this his debut full-length release. On progressing to what we have here, he has through the help of his good […]

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