Rick Bayles

Ron Sexsmith “Hermitage” (Cooking Vinyl, 2020)

May 20, 2020 Rick Bayles 0

Songsmith Sexsmith arrives with his sixteenth album and it’s a notable departure from much of his earlier work. The Canadian singer/songwriter sounds positively chipper. In the wake of a move from his habitual home city of […]

Forgotten Artists – Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra

May 6, 2020 Rick Bayles 0

Here at the Forgotten Artists series we don’t necessarily think these artists have actually been forgotten – it’s more that their contribution to Americana may have been overlooked or that they’ve flown below the radar for […]

Shelby Lynne “Shelby Lynne” (Everso Records, 2020)

May 5, 2020 Rick Bayles 1

With an indecent sense of timing, given that we’ve only recently featured her in “Forgotten Artists”, Shelby Lynne is back with a new solo album, her first in five years. The first thing that strikes you […]

Pinball “Pinball” (Independent, 2020)

April 29, 2020 Rick Bayles 1

Something we don’t get a lot of these days is an album of instrumentals; that’s what we have here with the debut album from Pinball, entitled ‘Pinball’! The band consists of Australians Melissa Cox on violin […]

AmericanaA to Z – Waylon Jennings

April 21, 2020 Rick Bayles 0

When I knew I was going to be covering the letter W in the latest round of the A-Z of Americana I considered a number of options – Lucinda Williams, Willie Nelson, Wilco… but I ended […]