Russell Murphy

Modern Hinterland “The Longest Part Of The Night” (Fandango, 2020)

February 21, 2020 Russell Murphy 0

A Venn diagram of the musical genres that go to make up this thing we call Americana would be an enormous and extremely complex entity. It is such a joy that so many excellent and diverse […]

Cup O’Joe “In The Parting” (Independent, 2020)

February 3, 2020 Russell Murphy 0

Across the great fountain of knowledge we know and love as the World Wide Web there are simply dozens of possible explanations offered for the origins of the expression ‘Cup O’Joe’, which, as all dear readers […]

VanWyck “Molten Rock” (Maiden Name Records, 2019)

January 16, 2020 Russell Murphy 1

Following on from the success of her debut album ‘An Average Woman’ in 2018, Amsterdam singer-songwriter VanWyck brings us ‘Molten Rock’, an album dealing with the complexities, paradoxes and even the duplicities that make us all […]

Doghouse Roses “We Are Made of Light” (Yellowroom Music, 2019)

December 16, 2019 Russell Murphy 0

Having toured on and off for 18 months since the release of their 3rd album ‘Lost is Not Losing’, Doghouse Roses have paused long enough to release ‘We Are Made of Light’, a mix of new […]

Catherine MacLellan “Coyote” (Independent, 2019)

November 26, 2019 Russell Murphy 0

Not everyone will be aware that Prince Edward Island (PEI) sits on the Atlantic coast, a Marine province of Canada, the smallest in fact in terms of land and population – yet the most densely populated […]