Peter Churchill

Tom Blackwell “Memphis Volume V” (Spoonful, 2020)

October 6, 2020 Peter Churchill 0

Tom Blackwell is his own man. A roaming, itinerant past has brought him to his Liverpool base via a number of stopovers, the most important and relevant of which would be Nashville. But, being that he […]

Spirit of 74 “Spirit of 74” (Independent, 2020)

September 29, 2020 Peter Churchill 0

Spirit of 74 is a new project from musician/songwriter Oz Zeltner, formerly of Oliver Buck and The New Madrids and represents his first delve into a studio in more than a decade. Citing influences that include […]

Siv Jakobsen “A Temporary Soothing” (U OK?, 2020)

September 10, 2020 Peter Churchill 0

In conceiving her second full-length album ‘A Temporary Soothing’, Norwegian Siv Jakobsen ponders the age-old stereotype of artists suffering for their art. As an inherently happy person, albeit a self-confessed worrier and over-thinker, she considered the […]

Emily Barker “A Dark Murmuration Of Words” (Thirty Tigers, 2020)

September 1, 2020 Peter Churchill 0

For her sixth full-length album release Emily Barker is taking on the world. Addressing climate change, racism, sexism and the myths of economic progress, Barker has, in her own softly spoken and articulate way, delivered her […]

Classic Americana Albums: Mary Chapin Carpenter “Stones In The Road” (Columbia, 1994)

July 8, 2020 Peter Churchill 1

Mary Chapin Carpenter can be credited with bringing this reviewer out of the musical wilderness that was his post teenage decade; the 1980s. Struggling to identify with anything remotely described as popular at the time it […]