Features
I Write the Songs – Cynthia Weil
This will be the last ‘I Write the Songs’ column in the current run. I’m taking a break for the summer period but it will be back in the Autumn with a whole new bunch of […]
Articles by Rick Bayles
Album Reviews
The Langan Band “Plight of Sheep”
Scottish folk, but not entirely as you expect it. If there were such a thing as Caledoniana, The Langan Band could well be leading the charge. This is the band’s first studio recording in almost ten […]
Book Reviews
Book Review: Lucinda Williams “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You”
Sharing her secrets. Given what an outstanding songwriter Lucinda Williams is, it should come as no great surprise to discover that she writes good prose as well, and this memoir has much of the sparse, dry […]
Columns
View from Across La Manche#15 – From Our Own Correspondent
The time has come, the correspondent said, to talk of many things, Of Kings and cops and long road hops, while Americana sings… (with heartfelt apologies to Lewis Carroll) I was originally going to write at […]
Album Reviews
Jolé “Let Go” EP
A fine set of songs about loss and what you take from it. There’s a melancholy mood that runs through the six tracks on this EP from this singer/songwriter. That’s not surprising when you consider that […]