Keith Hargreaves

Chance Meyer and the Bloody 98s “Ashdown” (Independent, 2019)

October 10, 2019 Keith Hargreaves 4

Coming from a classic Americana standpoint the Bloody 98s’ album ‘Ashdown’ is a thing of beauty. This is hewn from the same tree as The Rustlanders, Whiskeytown and Bruntnell circa ‘Shot from a Spring’ or ‘Here Comes the […]

M.Cambridge “Sea Songs: Anatomy of a Drowning Man” (Kirkinriola Records, 2019)

October 2, 2019 Keith Hargreaves 0

This album is almost a thesis rather than an album in the conventional sense. It feels like an investigation rather than an entertainment. As well as some beautifully crafted songs there are tracks of exposition interspersed […]

Jason Tyler Burton “Kentuckian” (Independent 2019)

September 20, 2019 Keith Hargreaves 0

Kentuckian is a straight down the middle Americana roots album full of all the delights of the genre. Some stirring playing, acoustic rhythms and rhymes, some keening harmonies, strong blue-collar songwriting all topped off by Tyler […]

Karine Polwart “Karine Polwart’s Scottish Songbook” (Independent, 2019)

September 17, 2019 Keith Hargreaves 0

From the opening crystal clear repeated note pattern, this album sets about the whole notion of a covers album with a fresh and distinctive voice. This is original and stirring stuff. ‘The Whole of the Moon’ […]

Leslie Stevens “Sinner” (Thirty Tigers, 2019)

August 27, 2019 Keith Hargreaves 0

Jonathan Wilson is a hugely talented producer, as well as a solo artist in his own right, and when he produces an album the great and the good sit up and take notice (Dawes, Father John […]