Jonathan Aird

Bob Dylan “Shadow Kingdom”

May 22, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Dylan travels in time and space to an imagined European jazz club – reinvention ensues. The Bootleg series aside, where the occasional historic or archive recording has featured, Bob Dylan is not famed for the number […]

Son Volt “Sometimes You’ve Got To Stop Chasing Rainbows” – grasp the nettle of reality, man

May 22, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Son Volt (the band that Wilco could have been) have a new album ‘Day Of The Doug’, coming out June 16th via Transmit Sound/Thirty Tigers. It’s a themed album of carefully chosen covers celebrating the musical […]

Jealous Of The Birds “Joan Of Arc” – she had a heart

May 19, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Larysa Musick – well, what chance did she have but to become a singer-songwriter? It’s ok, it’s a comment she acknowledges herself – although originally she seemed destined to be a poet and an illustrator-author. Yet […]

Matt Paxton & The Pintos “Southside Of The West Town” – are we doing it?

May 19, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Southside of the West Town‘, the new song from Matt Paxton & The Pintos, inhabits a mood of encroaching hopelessness – in a darkened town, with the neon shining through the rain, the narrator questions themself […]

Deer Tick “Once In A Lifetime” – not a cover, far from it

May 19, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Sometimes it’s good to confess – and sometimes it’s embarrassing. Well, here goes – you know how it can be, you know how it can go down and you just don’t listen to a band for […]