Jonathan Aird

Track Premiere: Fort Defiance “Maybe I’ll Find A Home”

February 18, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Jordan Eastman and Laurel Lane, who together are Fort Defiance can offer a lesson in the making of reckless promises. Meeting in the summer of 2014, they began touring together under the promise they would not […]

Jim Basnight “Still A Part Of Me” – never break free

February 17, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

The ever productive Jim Basnight returns with a new album – ‘Pop Top‘ – released through Power Popaholic as a download only it is available via Bandcamp. Today’s featured song is, he says “a solid rockin’ […]

Sloan Brothers “Cleopatra Echo” – are friends eclectic?

February 16, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Sloan Simpson shifted from playing guitar to recording music after a car accident affected hisplaying to the extent that he sold his instruments and amps. Fast forward two decades and the music recorder from Athens Georgia […]

Andy Irvine & Paul Brady “Andy Irvine / Paul Brady”

February 16, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

An album that the word classic was invented for. Recorded in the long hot summer of 1976 at the legendary Rockfield Studios and originally released on Compass Records, Andy Irvine and Paul Brady – stepping away […]

Abbie Gardner “Three Quarter Time” – waltzing through life

February 15, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

And so they say to us sometimes “Americana UK, why is there so little Dobro featured front and centre on the tracks you feature?” and usually we have little to say by way of a riposte […]

Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

July 2, 2026 0

It is sometimes forgotten that Gram Parsons did not enjoy commercial success as a solo artist during his short life, and that it was Emmylou Harris who took his sound to a wider audience with the […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads

July 2, 2026 0

It would be strange to start things off by actually introducing Lucinda Williams, so let’s begin with a justification instead: Williams has been at it since her 1979 debut Ramblin’ Woman, though she only truly broke […]

artwork for Adam Beattie album "Home Fires Burning"

Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

July 2, 2026 0

The hero’s journey echoed in the experiences of an everyman. It might be an exaggeration to say there are as many types of songwriters as there are songwriters, but then again, it might not. As well […]

Articles by Jonathan Aird

Track Premiere: Fort Defiance “Maybe I’ll Find A Home”

Jim Basnight “Still A Part Of Me” – never break free

Sloan Brothers “Cleopatra Echo” – are friends eclectic?

Andy Irvine & Paul Brady “Andy Irvine / Paul Brady”

Abbie Gardner “Three Quarter Time” – waltzing through life

Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads

Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

Book Review: Amy Speace “To The Performer, The Singer–Songwriter’s Handbook”

Juana Everett “Past Lives in California”