Tender reflections and stories from the itinerant troubadour. Over three decades Tim Easton’s travels have taken him busking around Europe and relentless tours across North America. He has recorded with Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Mike Campbell and […]
Power pop and rock as a lesson in self-help. A songwriter and musician who shot to instant acclaim for her 2020 debut album ‘Expectations’, Katie Pruitt could not have chosen a more fitting title for her […]
I was inspired to choose ‘The Poacher’ on hearing Slim Chance perform it at a recent show to raise funds for their seriously ill guitarist Steve Simpson. This band, originally formed by Ronnie Lane, took all […]
A profoundly personal journey of emotion, pain and hope. Individually the pain of breaking up and travelling are frequent sources of inspiration for songwriters but together they are perhaps less prevalent. But that is exactly what […]
Amid today’s obsession with genre labelling (is this country, is this pop, is this….whatever), it feels all the more important to cherish artists whose priorities run counter to the marketing spin, sinister algorithms and other such […]
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