From country rock to mesmeric indie. Freed from months of pandemic restrictions Sarah Shook might have been expected to kick the doors down with even more ferocity than with their band The Disarmers. Particularly if the […]
On this second solo album Rhiannon Giddens realises all her potential first seen with the Carolina Chocolate Drops. By interpreting traditional songs and writing her own she shines an unforgiving light into the darkness of racial […]
‘Sam Stone’ last week was a casualty of war. The returning hero fought his demons with a cocktail of booze and drugs that in the end finished him off just as he might have perished on […]
Sibling harmonies to “make an old song new”. After the wide acclaim for two releases of their own material bathed in warm harmonies blending folk, bluegrass and Appalachia, why would the Brother Brothers, of all people, […]
Music to phone a friend to. If you ever feel your view on the world tends too far towards the cynical then a dose of Mr Sam & The People People could be the antidote. At […]
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