When I was a student up in Edinburgh, I was on nodding acquaintance with Marcus Mumford, who was playing open mic pub gigs with songs that would eventually be sung in arenas and at Glastonbury. He […]
Happy-sad third album from SoCal country-rockers. The pitch for the music of The Far West, whose new album is their first since 2014, is “horribly painful songs that you can dance to”, according to bass player […]
Soft acoustic folk music which acknowledges both Celtic and American roots. DUG is the debut project from Jonny Pickett and Lorkin O’Reilly. The latter moved to New York state from Scotland as a teenager, and he […]
Eclectic and rootsy seventh album from Canadian singer/songwriter. Canadian singer Dave McCann recorded this album down in Mississippi, the state which, for the last century, has helped acts cook up a gumbo of music that eventually […]
When she played the Royal Albert Hall in 2015, Kacey Musgraves grew emotional when she realised her entire town of Golden, Texas, could fit into the room. She was promoting her second album “Pageant Material”, which […]
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