Russell Murphy

Katie Bates “Until The Day Dies”

December 16, 2021 Russell Murphy 0

A curious and alluring mix of light and heavy. Melbourne based singer songwriter Katie Bates started playing in bars and clubs in her early teens and now, still at a rather tender age, that experience has […]

Dion “Stomping Ground”

November 29, 2021 Russell Murphy 0

Classic stomping from a living legend. Here’s a guy that should need no introduction, an artist who has been prolific as a rock and roll artist, a folk singer-songwriter in the 60s, and indeed since that […]

Jodi “Blue Heron”

November 18, 2021 Russell Murphy 0

Maybe should have waited for the album to be finished. Whilst writing material for this debut album, Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jodi – ex-Pinegrove Nick Levine’s tentative alter ego, who uses the pronouns they/them – encountered […]

Classic Clips: Molly Tuttle and Billy Strings “I’m Sittin’ On Top Of The World” – Live at the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, 2019

November 12, 2021 Russell Murphy 2

I will admit to not knowing a great deal about Molly Tuttle until I was handed an assignment to review her 2019 album “When You’re Ready”. This was one of those simply delicious moments when you […]

Sarah McQuaid “The St Buryan Sessions”

October 15, 2021 Russell Murphy 0

More of the same throughout. As we have seen with so many artists impacted by the pandemic in terms of tours and gigs simply vanishing overnight, retreating into whatever song writing cubby hole suits to create […]

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Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0

An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Album Reviews

Morgan Wade “Reckless”

April 8, 2021 0

Indie country with a mainstream rock’n’roll and pop attitude. This is an interesting album for americana fans, and not necessarily for all the obvious reasons. While Morgan Wade is only 26 and ‘Reckless’ is her debut […]

Album Reviews

Pretty Lightning “Night Wobble”

February 21, 2025 0

Instrumental, atmospheric tales of the unexpected. Pretty Lightning are a German band formed back in 2007 by Christian Berhoff and Sebastian Haas. ‘Night Wobble’ is their sixth full-length album following the 2022 ‘Dust Moves’ and it […]

Tracks

Kane Incognito “Diagnose Me” – Listen

July 4, 2018 0

Four piece Canadian band make a spine-chilling blend of folk and rock, driven with passion and heart-felt energy. Lead singer Kane Cherrington formed the band after the death of his brother Eric – Kane had been the […]

Articles by Russell Murphy

Katie Bates “Until The Day Dies”

Dion “Stomping Ground”

Jodi “Blue Heron”

Classic Clips: Molly Tuttle and Billy Strings “I’m Sittin’ On Top Of The World” – Live at the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, 2019

Sarah McQuaid “The St Buryan Sessions”

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”