Mark Whitfield

Something for the weekend: Ruston Kelly “Radio Cloud”

June 26, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

We leave you this week dear reader with a new track out today from the forthcoming album ‘Shape & Destroy’ which comes out August 28th on his new label home Rounder Records, and which we’re already […]

Something for the weekend: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit “Overseas”

June 19, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

So here we are again as Cher said in 1989. If you really do want to be distracted from the absolute state of things for 5 minutes (and who could blame you now we have the […]

Patterson Hood on DBT’s band name: “I sincerely apologize for its stupidity”

June 19, 2020 Mark Whitfield 5

Drive-By Truckers frontman Patterson Hood has written a new op-ed for NPR in which he apologises to fans for the band’s name. “Our name was a drunken joke that was never intended to be in rotation […]

Neal Casal Foundation and tribute album announced

June 19, 2020 Mark Whitfield 1

A tribute album featuring Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams and Beachwood Sparks among others was announced yesterday along with details of a new Neal Casal Music Foundation (NCMF) which has been created “to honour the memory of […]

Songs for the apocalypse: John Wesley Harding “God Lives Upstairs”

June 18, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Many years ago when I lived in Sydney I used to sometimes go down Pitt Street which had some now long-forgotten record stores which would flog off albums for next to nothing, so pre-the days of […]