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artwork for Nicholas Jamerson album "Peace Mountain"

Nicholas Jamerson “Peace Mountain”

June 22, 2023 John Jenkins 0

A very good country and Appalachian album with great songs and excellent vocals throughout. This is an assured album – 14 songs and an additional 3 tracks of Dialogue. The dialogue tracks may not satisfy those […]

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Merry Hell “Let The Music Speak For Itself”

June 15, 2023 John Jenkins 0

Essential album for lovers of folk music that can proudly sit among the great albums of that genre. In an age the general public, as we are led to believe, only listen to a song for […]

Ruth Theodore “Cherry Picker”

May 10, 2023 John Jenkins 0

A career-spanning compilation album that reflects the talents, both musically and lyrically, of an unusual and confident artist. A career-spanning compilation, there is no doubt Ruth Theodore is a talented writer but who her audience may […]

Nichols & Phillips “Three Fools”

April 20, 2023 John Jenkins 0

An album which fans of the lighter end of the americana spectrum will enjoy immensely. This album was recorded in Wales but you would be forgiven if you thought it was recorded in sunny California. It’s […]

Trapper Schoepp “Siren Songs”

April 19, 2023 John Jenkins 0

Another recommended album with many rewards found on repeated plays. Give it a listen. Trapper Schoepp is an American singer-songwriter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a seasoned performer and artist and this is reflected throughout […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

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 […]

Videos

Video: Elliot C Way “All I Know”

June 6, 2023 0

Beginning with thunderous drums, ‘All I Know’ by Elliot C Way steadily builds into a hugely compelling song. Absorbing layers of sound are contributed by Kendel Carson on fiddle, John Sponarski’s soaring electric guitar and gorgeous […]

Tracks

Gabriel Minnikin “Under Her Heels” – Listen

March 5, 2021 0

Here’s a real treat for the end of another hard won week – the first single from Gabriel Minnikin’s new album ‘Sweet Nothings’ which was released on Valentines’ Day. And what a song it is – not […]

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Interview: Daniel Meade

March 1, 2017 0

Glasgow’s Daniel Meade has an old soul, an ear for a tune that you’d swear was already an old friend and a guitar that right now is screaming “I Love You”. With a new album; playing […]

Articles by John Jenkins

Nicholas Jamerson “Peace Mountain”

Merry Hell “Let The Music Speak For Itself”

Ruth Theodore “Cherry Picker”

Nichols & Phillips “Three Fools”

Trapper Schoepp “Siren Songs”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”