Jonathan Aird

Classic Clips: Bonny Light Horseman “The Roving” opbmusic Live Session, 2020

September 29, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

This is, of course, the band that played London on the 1st of February 2020, and it perfectly captures the band’s wonderfully easy interplay – and their obvious joy that their music gives them. And if […]

The Northern Belle “Merchant Navy Hotel” – like paradise, but better

September 29, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s been a while, but here at last is some new music from one of our favourite Nordicana bands – Nordicana of course being the even more finely genre slice that covers the Americana style music […]

Dylan LeBlanc “Coyote” – not to be trusted

September 28, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

The new single from Dylan LeBlanc latest release is its title track – it’s a dusty tale of nefarious doings South of the border, as crime is once more seen as the route out of poverty. . […]

Track Premiere: Taylor Pearlstein “Sandman”

September 28, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

There’s a dreamy disorientating feel to today’s Track Premiere, perhaps because Taylor Pearlstein shares that she comes from the Seattle area, as she hails from the sleepy, Lynchian small-town mountains of the Snoqualmie Valley. And just […]

Track Premiere: Brown Horse “Stealing Horses”

September 27, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Brown Horse are a six piece Americana band from Norwich (A Fine City) – they originally formed as a four piece folk band comprising Emma Tovell, Nyle Holihan, Patrick Turner and Rowan Braham in 2018 and […]

Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”

August 21, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from Teenage Fanclub who will release their new album Do Not Dare To Dream on 9th October via […]

Alicia Blue “Country Desire”

August 21, 2026 0

A confident debut that shows the Nashville-based singer-songwriter has a vigour that sets her apart from the crowd. For singer-songwriter Alicia Blue, Waylon Jennings isn’t so much an influence as someone she calls “a creative angel […]

Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015

August 21, 2026 0

Michael Hurley died last year, and wasn’t it starting to look like he wasn’t the dying kind? Every now and then someone goes, and it’s only then that you realise what you’d been hoping for: that […]

Articles by Jonathan Aird

Classic Clips: Bonny Light Horseman “The Roving” opbmusic Live Session, 2020

The Northern Belle “Merchant Navy Hotel” – like paradise, but better

Dylan LeBlanc “Coyote” – not to be trusted

Track Premiere: Taylor Pearlstein “Sandman”

Track Premiere: Brown Horse “Stealing Horses”

Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”

Alicia Blue “Country Desire”

Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015

LA band Big Trouble to release their debut album “On Elephant Hill”

Devyn Brinsfield “Dreamers and Losers”