A ten-year meditation on Imposter Syndrome with the music of the last 60 years. ‘The Architect’ is 32-year-old Canadian David James Allen’s third album and is based around a ten-year-old idea of writing about the challenges […]
How to create cinematic songs and still keep the vocals upfront and disproving the difficult third album cliché. There is an age-old cliché in the music business about the difficult third album where artists can struggle to […]
How Shadow Bruce Welch helped lay the foundations of a country and bluegrass career. Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel is recognised as one of the best acoustic guitarists ever, and he is touring the UK in March […]
Studio perfection is replaced by live perfection with a touch more soul. Leif Vollebekk is a Canadian folk artist of French and Norwegian descent who has been steadily building his career, releasing his fourth album ‘New […]
The challenges of reimagining rock songs as bluegrass staples with the help of newgrass legends. The jamband scene in America has always been bluegrass friendly because of the rhythm inherent in the music and the instrumental […]
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