Jonathan Aird

Folk Roundup – Nuala Kennedy, Joel Paterson, Rachael Kilgour, Rupert Wates, McDermott & North, Kim Moberg

September 7, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Here’s the latest in Americana UK’s roundup reviews – you’ve been thrilling to Bluegrass Briefs, and you’ve also thrilled to AUK Shortcuts and now, at last, you can get all fired up with excitement for Folk […]

Ben Cook-Feltz “Magnet On Your Refrigerator” – is Nashville Eden?

September 7, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Ben Cook-Feltz has some doubts about Nashville – it’s just possible, he suggests, that Nashville is not the centre of the Universe, musical or otherwise. And as a result he doesn’t have any intentions of upping […]

Buddy & Julie Miller “I’ll Never Live It Down” – Nothing ever worked…

September 6, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

‘I’ll Never Live It Down‘ is, Buddy Miller says, “a song about capricious love and the heartbreak it brings.” It was written by Julie Miller during an intensely creative period which saw upwards of 100 songs […]

Track Premiere: The Lowlies “Drink From The Well”

September 6, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

The Lowlies – Caleb and Carolyn Spaulding – have a debut album coming out soon (October 6th), but it almost didn’t happen. But for the pandemic and a little synchronicity they may well have decided that […]

Mouths Of Babes “Summertime” – the living is, apparently, easy

September 5, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1

There seems to be so much irony around this song – truth comes out of the mouths of babes of course, but just possibly the idea here is that Ty Greenstein and Ingrid Elizabeth are Babes […]