Jonny Brick

Cover of the Blue Cactus album, 'Believer'

Blue Cactus “Believer”

April 8, 2025 Jonny Brick 0

Meditative melodies with an alt-country feel. From out of the college town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Blue Cactus have here fashioned the same kind of Cosmic Americana that the likes of Marty Stuart and Kacey […]

Cover of Rachel Kane's album ‘Holler at the Wind’

Rachel Kane “Holler at the Wind”

April 2, 2025 Jonny Brick 0

Assured acoustic folk full of wisdom and melody. After two decades away from music Rachel Kane, who is from Neil Young’s birth city of Winnipeg, Canada, returns to a much altered world: for one thing, she’s […]

Cover of Rees Shad's album 'Porcelain Angel'

Rees Shad “Porcelain Angel”

March 20, 2025 Jonny Brick 0

Twelve tracks that run the full gamut of American music. In case you are unaware of Rees Shad, whose biography can be summed up as “polymath”, this is his 17th album in a 30-year career which […]

Live Review: Iris DeMent + Ana Egge, Union Chapel, London – 28th February 2025

March 5, 2025 Jonny Brick 4

Do we need to enumerate the ways Iris DeMent is so marvellous? She possesses a voice which is never forgotten once you hear it, akin to that of Stevie Nicks, Dolly Parton or Lucinda Williams. At […]

Holly Lovell “Hello Chelsea”

February 24, 2025 Jonny Brick 0

Piano-led debut with a classic singer/songwriter feel. Holly Lovell spent her teenage years in Australia, where her dad was born, then moved to the US where her mum was born. Still US-based, she recorded her debut […]