Rick Thorn

Joey Frendo “Bound For Heartache”

April 3, 2023 Rick Thorn 0

Songs of resignation but optimism from the dust belt. Originally from Michigan but now based in Tulsa for the last three years ‘Bound For Heartache’ is Frendo’s debut full-length album. It switches easily from full-on country […]

Chickasaw Mudd Puppies “Fall Line”

March 17, 2023 Rick Thorn 0

Deep South Americana. Fast and furious. Coming from Athens Georgia this duo has reformed from the Eighties following the discovery of some of their songs for the film ‘Tracing Cowboys’. This time they have also added […]

Ben Walker “Banish Air from Air”

March 7, 2023 Rick Thorn 0

British folk music at its most thought-provoking. Ben Walker is such an interesting character. A post-grad in Mathematics and a classically trained virtuoso on the guitar. Described by Total Guitar Magazine as ‘one of the best […]

Classic Americana Albums: Mary Gauthier “Filth and Fire”

February 22, 2023 Rick Thorn 2

The opening lines of ‘Walk Through the Fire’ the first track on this 2002 album perfectly sum up its feel and tone ‘’In the darkness, it finds me, the terrible fire. It doesn’t matter how I […]

I’m Kingfisher “Glue”

February 10, 2023 Rick Thorn 0

Is this a new genre? Lounge Americana. I’m Kingfisher is the alias of multi-award-winning Swedish folk artist Thomas Jonsson. It is the fifth in this guise and his eight overall. “ All I wanted to do […]