Jonathan Aird

Book Review: Vashti Bunyan “Wayward: Just Another Life To Live”

May 5, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

A Sixties Fairy Tale Unfolds through recollections and anecdotes. Vashti Bunyan’s adventures in the 1960s and early 1970s are, it is fair to say, legendary – and a romantic legend at that. The things that people […]

Lauren Morrow “People Talk” – the chattering classes

May 5, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

On the title track from her new album Lauren Morrow pretty much skewers the endless drift of meaningless and thoughtless chatter that the world is full of: “people talk a big game when they need someone […]

Rufus Wainwright “Harvest” – from WBS

May 4, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

WBS – that’s Wainwright, Bird and Stills, and in this incidence the Stills is Chris Stills. The Bird is Andrew Bird, no exciting Byrd connection there but hey, you can’t have everything. And Rufus Wainwright doesn’t […]

Steve Dawson “Eyes Closed, Dreaming”

May 4, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Canadian Folk Rocker continues high quality high production rate. A third solo album from Steve Dawson in three years – and he has other side projects as well – might cause a slight twinge of nervousness […]

Track Premiere: Sarah Morris “The Longest Night”

May 4, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Sarah Morris describes her forthcoming (it’s out tomorrow!) album, ‘Here’s To You,’ as a collection of gift songs. Written to family and friends, these songs have us eavesdropping on an intimate conversation. ‘Longest Night’ waxes nostalgic […]