Tim Martin

The Slow Harvest “Selections From The Sad Bastard Songbook”

May 1, 2025 Tim Martin 0

Contemplating life and death to a cinematic soundtrack. Songs with a joyful, uplifting way of looking at the harsher things of life. The debut album from this Milwaukee-area ensemble “has a sound that leans Americana and […]

Bluegrass Briefs: Taff Rapids, The Seldom Scene, Merle Travis, The SteelDrivers, Chicken Wire Empire, EZRA

April 30, 2025 Tim Martin 0

Bluegrass is a truly multinational genre these days, as Taff Rapids demonstrate. Bands like The Seldom Scene and Chicken Wire Empire are pushing the boundaries while still respecting the traditions of Bluegrass past. That past is […]

Book/Album Review: Josh Rosenthal (editor) “Treasures Untold: A Modern 78 RPM Reader”

April 17, 2025 Tim Martin 4

We’ve had vinyl, CD, and cassettes all making a “comeback.” So are 78s the next format we’ll all be hankering after. It feels unlikely simply on the grounds of breakability alone. But 78s refuse to go […]

Sue Harding “The World”

April 15, 2025 Tim Martin 0

Reflections on life, change and survival. Modern folk music which doesn’t rest in the past. Since her last album ‘Darkling,’ Harding has entered a new stage of life. ‘The World’ is named for the tarot card. […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Over The Rhine “Latter Days”

April 14, 2025 Tim Martin 2

I’ve talked about Over The Rhine before, often, but they’ve accompanied me on the life journey for over 20 years now. They have written several songs that have resonated for me at different times, but none […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

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 […]

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

Wesley Dean “Music From Crazy Hearts”

May 9, 2024 1

Pop, rock, gospel, and country blend together in uneasy Nashville stew. Wesley Dean is the artist formerly known as Wes Carr who won Australian Idol back in 2008. He released several albums under that name and […]

Album Reviews

Stephen Simmons “Gall” (Independent, 2018)

August 29, 2018 0

If you’re having a great day and feeling care-free, you may want to steer clear of ‘Gall,’ the new album by singer-songwriter Stephen Simmons. Recorded in his Tennessee home over the past year, Simmons plays all […]

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Good Lovelies “Songbird” – sing on, they do sing on

October 14, 2024 0

We expect that you have not yet forgotten the exciting news of the reissue of the album ‘We Will Never Be The Same‘ by Good Lovelies. Heck, we only mentioned it a week ago. Well, here’s […]

Articles by Tim Martin

The Slow Harvest “Selections From The Sad Bastard Songbook”

Bluegrass Briefs: Taff Rapids, The Seldom Scene, Merle Travis, The SteelDrivers, Chicken Wire Empire, EZRA

Book/Album Review: Josh Rosenthal (editor) “Treasures Untold: A Modern 78 RPM Reader”

Sue Harding “The World”

For The Sake Of The Song: Over The Rhine “Latter Days”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

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”