Mike Elliott

Jack Cade “Bear Bones” (Collision, 2019)

June 27, 2019 Mike Elliott 0

Jack Cade will never be accused of having a golden throat. Imagine Kris Kristofferson in a heated argument with Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart, and Johnny Cash. If it helps, or just for fun, picture the gigantic […]

Bruce Springsteen “Western Stars” (Columbia, 2019)

June 13, 2019 Mike Elliott 1

The lone traveler sticks out his thumb and his journey begins. Across the country he hitch-hikes, catching rides from family men, truck drivers, muscle car owners and the like, listening to their stories and situations as […]

Owen-Glass “The Rope & The Rabbit” (August Eckler Media, 2019)

June 4, 2019 Mike Elliott 0

One of the best albums of the first half of 2019, Owen-Glass’s ‘The Rope & The Rabbit’ keeps on giving; each song is better than the last. Delicious, hushed harmonies hover above folk-pop arrangements that stay […]

True Strays “Homeward Bound” EP (Fieldview Records, 2019)

May 16, 2019 Mike Elliott 0

There’s no doubt True Strays can rock out. The drums pound. The cymbals crash. The guitars crunch and slide and the bass bellows below it all. Their latest EP, ‘Homeward Bound’ kicks off with the hard […]

Roswell “Remedy” (Independent, 2019)

April 25, 2019 Mike Elliott 0

Jasmine Watkiss and Zoe Wren are Roswell, a folk duo whose voices combine to create a seamless flow of rich, harmonic beauty. Their debut EP, ‘Remedy,’ highlights those harmonies, sounding as telepathic as siblings who actually […]

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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

Jonathan Wilson “Dixie Blur” (Bella Union, 2020)

March 27, 2020 0

‘Dixie Blur’ is a really surprising treat. Jonathan Wilson is a modern musical renaissance man and his resume includes band membership, production, songwriting, session work and tour support. The list of musicians he has worked with […]

Essentials

Essentials: The Top 10 David Olney Songs

December 12, 2024 10

It was the late great Townes Van Zandt who said “Anytime anyone asks me who my favourite music writers are, I say Mozart, Lightning Hopkins, Bob Dylan and David Olney…. David Olney is one of the […]

Tracks

John John Brown “On Black Friday I Met Jesus “

February 19, 2021 0

John John Brown’s new single is taken from his second album ‘Americana Comics‘ and is a softly sardonic tale of the worship of consumerism at the holy Wal-Mart, told in a style which he acknowledges owes […]

Articles by Mike Elliott

Jack Cade “Bear Bones” (Collision, 2019)

Bruce Springsteen “Western Stars” (Columbia, 2019)

Owen-Glass “The Rope & The Rabbit” (August Eckler Media, 2019)

True Strays “Homeward Bound” EP (Fieldview Records, 2019)

Roswell “Remedy” (Independent, 2019)

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”