You’ll recall Rumer for, if nothing else, a wonderful cover of Jimmy Webb’s ‘P.F. Sloan‘. And here she returns with another cover song from the mid-seventies. ‘Hard Times for Lovers‘ was first recorded by Judy Collins […]
It’s not a popular name in the UK for some unfathomable reason, but The Dustbowl Sinners are what they’d call an Old-Timey Stringband in the States. With admittedly the unusual addition of accordion and prominent harmonica, […]
As part of his landmark series ‘Cosmos‘ the great Carl Sagan made a characteristically softly spoken and reasoned analysis of astrology, and found it was bunkum wrapped up in hokum. No doubt he’d approve of Brenden […]
New Zealand’s Nadia Reid has a new album called ‘Out Of My Province‘, which emerged on Spacebomb Records last Friday. It features musings on travel and, on ‘Oh Canada‘ also embraces Reid’s love of Canadian artists […]
Tai Shan is a singer-songwriter who’s hard to pin down to a single musical genre – her stories want to expand out of a folk or rock constraint in order to pull in soulful elements and […]
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