Jonathan Aird

BEATrio ‘Archipelago’ – out amongst the islands

March 24, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

BEATrio is a new band with at least one well known name in it. Béla Fleck has joined forces with harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sánchez. It’s a lively combo which reminds Fleck of earlier […]

Seth Walker “Why The Worry” – be happy…?

March 21, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

“Why The Worry” is the third single and the title track of the Asheville, NC-based Seth Walker’s forthcoming album, ‘Why The Worry’, due April 4th on Royal Potato Family. The song was co-written with longtime friend […]

David Lowery “I Wrote A Song Called Take The Skinheads Bowling” – does this really mean nothing?

March 20, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

David Lowery has a new album coming out on Cooking Vinyl on May 30th called ‘Fathers, Sons and Brothers‘ and it’s 28 tracks are very much in the biographical vein. Take today’s song – it’s about […]

Jackson Hollow “Appalachia” – dreaming of the home of bluegrass

March 19, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Appalachia‘ finds Jackson Hollow dreaming of an idyllic return to the home of bluegrass, which makes sense since they are an award winning bluegrass band. Albeit an award winning bluegrass band who hail out of Vancouver […]

The Scarlet Goodbye “El Camino Adios” – farewell, then

March 18, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Today’s song “El Camino Adios” is the title track of the recently released (through The Label Group/Virgin Records) second album from The Scarlet Goodbye, the band headed by Daniel Murphy (Golden Smog and Soul Asylum) and Jeff […]

Anniversary Cheers: JD Crowe & The New South and Boone Creek celebrate 50 years

August 18, 2026 0

Craft Recordings re-release two remastered ground-breaking bluegrass albums, one long out of print, and both on CD for the first time In the mid-1970s, bluegrass music was evolving from the traditional ensemble acoustic playing of artists […]

Dan Pye “Room 7, on the 7th”

August 18, 2026 0

An impressive modern folk debut where creativity shines through. London-based Dan Pye is a creative individual. Alongside Room 7, on the 7th, his debut album, he has produced films, zines, handmade copper etchings, a diptych and […]

Cover art for Eric Hgen album "Make Country Sad Again"

More People Really Should Know About: Eric Hagen

August 18, 2026 2

In his excellent review of the album Revival, published in these hallowed pages upon its release in 2023, my esteemed colleague Michael Macy compared the songs of Eric Hagen to those of the great American realist […]

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