Album Reviews
Runnner “Always Repeating”
A melancholy record for a melancholy time. As we can all attest, the past 18 months or so have been a pretty tough time for many, with our physical, mental and financial health severely impacted, […]
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Album Reviews
Martha Fields “Headed South”
Appalachia and Texas meets Southwest France. Lockdown has inspired many artists to write new material during the past eighteen months or so, but it is unlikely that many americana albums were written during this time […]
Album Reviews
Frank Turner “England Keep My Bones (10 Year Anniversary Edition)”
Has it really been ten years already? When originally released in June 2011, Frank Turner’s fourth studio album, ‘England Keep My Bones’ was met with critical acclaim and went on to achieve commercial success, debuting […]
Album Reviews
J.R. Harbidge “Long Black River”
Black Country americana really should be a ‘thing’. Given the number of new routes to market largely created as a result of that wondrous invention, t’Interweb, it is little wonder that so many artists – […]
Essentials
Essentials: The top 10 Brandi Carlile songs
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, multi-platinum album sales, multiple Grammy winner as both performer and producer, supergroup founding member, humanitarian activist, a number one book on the New York Times Bestseller list, even has a restaurant named […]