Setting off from last week’s Felice Brothers’ ‘Jazz On The Autobahn’ let’s connect with something to do with highways. If that sounds too easy we shall stick with that exact German definition and see what adventure […]
“Proper folk” from the Yorkshire Dales to Appalachia. A long-held aim of Yorkshire folk artist Serious Sam Barrett’s has been to make a “proper folk album”. Those familiar with his music would not hesitate to attach […]
Dean Owens is not given to exaggeration, so if opening a show with “We’re here, it’s a miracle,” might have raised a few eyebrows pre-pandemic, tonight he was bang on the button. For his first show […]
Entrancing fingerstyle guitar instrumentals. Perhaps the most enduring attraction of americana is the sheer extent of its styles and influences. Piedmont blues comes as no surprise but nineteenth-century classical guitar or early twentieth-century French avant-garde might […]
An eerie yet deeply compelling study from a distance. Distance, loneliness, space and introspection all describe music made over the past 18 months. Anna Tivel’s new album ‘Blue World’ takes all of those to even deeper […]
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