News
Did you hear Rhiannon Giddens?
Well, with all that’s been going on just recently it’s just possible that you may have missed the short series ‘Black Roots‘ on BBC Radio4. Particularly as it would have found a natural home on Radio2, […]
Articles by Jonathan Aird
Tracks
Eugene Tyler Band “60 Days” – And counting
This is unashamedly a pandemic song from modern Bluegrass outfit Eugene Tyler Band, musing in a suitably jaunty way on all the Covid tropes you can think of – watching, or not watching, the news; drinking […]
Tracks
Track Premiere: The Mattoid “Beautiful”
We get a lot of people who are described as troubadours, mostly these are people with a home and a tour schedule but Helsinki’s Ville Kiviniemi has a better fit to the restless wandering artist mythology […]
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Rainn Byrns “Never Ending Story” – no dragons mentioned, honest
How better to start the week than with a song that focuses on the endless pointless repetition of life, with the same old same old coming around again. And again. And, yes, yet again. Perfect for […]
Features
Dream Team Double Header – Judy Collins & Wizz Jones
Randomness – it can be a great thing. To hit town and find a favourite artist is playing that night, to stoop down and pick up a £50 note blowing along an empty street, to… well […]