Jonathan Aird

All the Luck in the World “Tested & Tried – Listen”

November 16, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

All the luck in the World are an Irish band based in Berlin who make a modern folk-rock sound reminiscent of Bon Iver. ‘Tested & Tried‘ sounds dreamily relaxing, but there’s a grain of grit in […]

Joe Stamm Band “Dandelion Woman” – Listen

November 15, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

The title track from the Joe Stamm Band’s recently released EP – it hit the streets on 26th October – opens with menace as a tale of bad choices in love on a trailer park is […]

Bob Dylan “Bootleg Series 14: More Blood, More Tracks” (Columbia Records,2018)

November 14, 2018 Jonathan Aird 1

“Every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul” – ‘Blood on the Tracks‘ is arguably Dylan’s masterpiece in a gallery […]

Cam Penner “At War with Reason” – Listen

November 14, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

The incomparable Cam Penner is playing the Green Note tonight, with the esteemed Jon Wood. And this is a new song which, in the days we find ourselves living in, you might think that is about […]

Seasick Steve, Cambridge Corn Exchange, Cambridge, 9th November 2018

November 13, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s a packed out Corn Exchange for the first night of Seasick Steve’s first UK tour since 2015. Much has changed since his famous Hootenanny breakthrough moment, not least that the audience is now predominantly middle-aged […]