Album Reviews
Sam Lee “Songdreaming”
An open eyed in wonder stroll through a land on the edge of being blighted. Sam Lee is without doubt one of the most important singers working in that vein of music we call folk, a […]
Articles by Jonathan Aird
Tracks
Blackwater Railroad Company “Clarity” – I can see clearly now…
‘Clarity‘ is the upbeat new song from the slightly ominously entitled new album ‘A Lovely Place to Die’, which will be released on July 12, from Blackwater Railroad Company. The Alaskan band is made up of […]
Tracks
Track Premiere: R.R. Williams “Tulsa”
And once again we find ourselves striking an accidental core of coincidence, because whilst R.R. Williams is definitely and solidly within a “Heartland rock” sub-genre of Americana on today’s track ‘Tulsa‘ he has – wouldn’t you […]
Columns
Folk Roundup – Anne Briggs, Amelia Coburn, Nate Sabat, Will Page, Martin Simpson, Niamh Bury
The latest edition of our roundup of Folk album mini-reviews veers away from the “fiddles with everything” of the last batch of reviews and heads very definitely into the “mixed bag of folk” direction with perhaps […]
Tracks
Track Premiere: Townsend’s Solitaire “Dear Old Friend”
Townsend’s Solitaire have a nice dedication to the Tracks feature, here they are pictured actually sitting and standing on tracks. Guys – we really appreciate the effort. The sharp eyed viewer may have already spotted the […]