Album Reviews
Martyn Joseph “1960”
Life, talk to me about life. Four decades into his career Martyn Joseph delivers his 23rd album, and it finds the Welsh singer-songwriter in a reflective mood, taking an assessment of the changes in his life […]
Articles by Jonathan Aird
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Heather Sarona “For Me” – let’s be in love, in time
Heather Sarona grew up in a folk/bluegrass world in a small town in the Uwharrie Mountains in North Carolina. And once she took possession of her dad’s old guitar at the age of 14 then the […]
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Jaspar Lepak “My Right To Choose” – obviously
Jaspar Lepack was so impressed by this song written by Cary Cooper and Tom Prasada-Rao that she had to record her own version. The song was written in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to […]
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Deanna Petcoff “I Don’t Wanna Get Over You” – a ballad for an unwilling broken-heart
Yes, Toronto’s Deanna Petcoff leans towards the poppier end of the Americana spectrum, maybe rubbing shoulders with The National and Future Islands, and maybe even Americana favourite Father John Misty on the kinda-indy influenced ‘I Don’t […]
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Delafaye “Dog Day” – Mister ain’t the dogs a-barkin’?
This (fairly) new song from Delafaye makes for a slightly late-arriving perfect accompaniment to a hung-over New Year’s Eve – either cast your mind back a few days or cast your mind forward a few days, […]