Keith Hargreaves

Nathan Bell “Loves Bone and Stars, Love’s Bone and Stars” / “Er Gwaetha Pawb a Phopeth” (Angry Stick Recording Company 2018)

September 18, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0

Nathan Bell is a working man who now more often than not makes albums. This is the fourth album of the ‘Family Man’ series and is a series of reflective acoustic ruminations on a life being […]

Cordovas “That Santa Fe Channel” (ATO Records 2018)

September 6, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0

This is a great album, right off the bat all the boxes are ticked and squared away. Delicate triple harmonies, whoozy swooning choruses, deft instrumentation and just enough rootsy grit to keep the listener and the […]

Charlie Smyth “The Way I Feel” (Independent, 2018)

July 31, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0

Charlie Smyth has come to Nashville where he now resides, having been a veteran of the 1990s Chicago and Seattle punk scenes of the 1990s – and perhaps he brings some of that sensibility to his […]

Jimmy LaFave “Peacetown” (Music Road Records, 2018)

July 30, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0

This album arrives under the banner ‘Austin Legend, The Late Jimmy LaFave..’ and as such presents a reviewer with a potentially thorny problem. What if it’s no good? Is there anything to be gained from constructive […]

Mike Uva “Lights Coming Up” (Collectible Escalators 2018)

June 20, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0

Cleveland’s Mike Uva is an interesting cove if these tracks are solid indicators of the man’s character. Lots of influences dripped through a lo-fi prism. The acoustic confessional ‘A Proposal’ is sparse but leavened with a […]