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Carson McHone “Drugs” – Listen
Ray Wylie Hubbard says of Carson McHone that she “writes songs like her life depends on it.” There’s no soft edges on this new song from Carson McHone, from the start there’s a destructive dependency – […]
Articles by Jonathan Aird
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Billy Wilder “Roar of the Wild” – Listen
Billy Wilder is the band name, and the songwriting driving force behind the band is Avi Salloway. This track comes from the album ‘Strike the Match‘, which hit the ground at the end of last year. ‘Roar […]
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Mike Waterson “Jack Frost” – Listen
This year is the 80th anniversary of the legendary folk music label Topic Records, and we’ll have more to say about that soon. Their roster of artists is quite phenomenal – The Watersons, Martin Carthy, Shirley […]
Album Reviews
Malojian “Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home (Deluxe)” (Quiet Arch, 2018)
In this case weirdness would seem to be a sardonic view of the world, somewhat akin to the albums of Father John Misty – and, like Josh Tillman, Northern Irish singer Stephen Scullion has adopted an […]
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Patty Griffin “River” – Listen
Where do songs come from ? For Patty Griffin the answer, for this song at least, was from the half line “Isn’t she a river?” After that, she says, “the rest sort of followed. Sometimes songs are […]