Lyndon Bolton

Live Review: Graham Nash, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London – 11th September 2023

September 20, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 1

Outside, the Theatre Royal flashed, “Graham Nash Sixty Years of Songs and Stories.” Inside, bang on time, Nash strode onto the stage, waited for the heartfelt applause to subside before announcing, “I’m pretty old now and […]

Steep Canyon Rangers “Morning Shift”

September 13, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 0

Storytelling to the finest bluegrass. ‘Morning Shift’ further blazes the Steep Canyon Rangers trail of North Carolina bluegrass and storytelling. Anticipation of this 14th studio album was always going to be high following the departure of […]

Mull Historical Society “In My Mind There’s A Room”

August 15, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 0

Rooms with many views. Colin MacIntyre must be one of the most creative spirits ever to come from the Isle of Mull, if not far wider. A musician, producer, author for both adults and children and […]

Garrett Bryan and the Traveling City Committee “Clocks & Mirrors”

August 3, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 1

Soulful southern rock. For anyone with more than a passing interest in soulful rock with measures of blues and country, luxuriant guitar solos then this is the album for you. Garrett Bryan is a fourth-generation musician […]

Rick Hornyak “Dandelion”

July 25, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 0

A record of introspection that rocks and muses. Describing Rick Hornyak as purely an “Austin heartland rocker” falls short of doing him proper justice. There is a lot of rock on this album, and full-on it […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Album Reviews

Art Schop “The Fifth Hammer”

June 19, 2025 0

A deep, challenging, thought-provoking listen, which one must immerse oneself in and seek to understand the lyrics. Art Schop is a performing name of Brooklyn-based British solo artist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Martin G. Walker and “The […]

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Lucinda Williams and Jesse Malin – a mutual admiration society

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Two of Americana UK’s favourite Americans spoke to Rolling Stone about their mutual admiration which may have been sparked by Jesse Malin’s tribute to Lucinda Williams on his 2007 album, Gutter In The Glitter. They spoke […]

Tracks

Nicholas Rowe “I Wish I Could Sing It For You” – do I own any originality?

December 8, 2022 0

Here’s a challenging topic from Nicholas Rowe, a song in which he questions every artistic motive he has, singing “What’s the use in trying to write another song? / When I’ve got a hundred others that […]

Articles by Lyndon Bolton

Live Review: Graham Nash, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London – 11th September 2023

Steep Canyon Rangers “Morning Shift”

Mull Historical Society “In My Mind There’s A Room”

Garrett Bryan and the Traveling City Committee “Clocks & Mirrors”

Rick Hornyak “Dandelion”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”