Superb versions of spirituals and work songs performed with a voice mined from the bedrock. Walter Parks has a superb grizzled, soulful voice; full of rumbling authority, shot through with and sagacity. The perfect voice to […]
Scope and emotional depth from a one-woman choir. Where do you find a community choir to lead when you are holed up by yourself in a house on a hill during a lockdown? Well, you have […]
Jon Langford has lived in Chicago for the last thirty or so years, but is originally from Newport in South Wales. When I interviewed Jon over the phone – that’s a bit like Zoom but without […]
Incipient, snarling rock and roll melding bluegrass and punk as if this were Memphis in 1954. Did rock and roll originate in Sun Records Recording Studio, Memphis in 1954? Some might argue that others were treading […]
Laidback, cool, West Coast country from a new Gram and Emmylou. It’s strange how a pedal steel can evoke thoughts of either a deep south dive bar full of rednecks or a trippy night at San […]
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