Jonathan Aird

The Mother Hips “I Don’t Want To Drive You Away” – a great song is a great song

November 22, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Thirty years into their career The Mother Hips have decided for the first time to cut a cover version in the studio and put it onto their new album ‘Glowing Lantern.‘ The song in question is, […]

Breaking News – Alison Kraus & Robert Plant live stream today!

November 19, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

So, we all agree that ‘Raising Sand‘ is a great album, and we’re all looking forward to the follow up album ‘Raise the Roof‘ which is out 19th November (You’ll have to wait til December 3rd […]

The Ghibertins “Ropes & Kites” – powerful indy-folk-rock

November 19, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

On the latest single from their album ‘The Life & Death of John Doe‘, Milan’s The Ghibertins channel all the positive energy they can on the album’s most upbeat number. Like Ben Franklin’s kite, The Ghibertins […]

Beatrice Deer “History” – let’s move forward!

November 18, 2021 Jonathan Aird 1

Beatrice Deer is a Montreal-based singer-songwriter, who is half-Inuk and half-Mohawk and was born and raised in Nunavik, Quebec. Her music blends indie rock and modern folk with traditional Inuit tales and throat singing, as Beatrice […]

Track Premiere: Ken Pomeroy “Flannel Cowboy”

November 17, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Ken Pomeroy’s second album ‘Christmas Lights in April‘ is out on Horton Records on 10th December, and remarkably, considering the maturity of the song writing and performance on the album, Ken Pomeroy is 19. Some of […]

Classic Clips: Joni Mitchell “Coyote”, Gordon Lightfoot’s home, 1975

July 3, 2026 1

No doubt some really clued up expert on the Rolling Thunder Revue can pinpoint the actual evening that this clip comes from, but enough to say that it is footage captured whilst Joni Mitchell was on […]

Cover art for Fruit Bats album The Landfill

Fruit Bats “The Landfill”

July 3, 2026 0

After a gap of a mere nine months, Eric D. Johnson returns with a new Fruit Bats offering – the americana world should rejoice. We really need to get something out of the way immediately. The […]

Hell in a Handcart – making a profit for “The Man”

July 3, 2026 0

“In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act” – George Orwell “Well I woke up this morning…” as legendary blues numbers are won’t to have it. Normally my next line would […]

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