Tim Martin

Candi Staton “Back to My Roots”

March 10, 2025 Tim Martin 0

Classic southern soul highlighting one of the roots of Americana from the AMA award winner. In January 2025 the Americana Music Association awarded “legendary soul icon” Candi Staton their highest accolade, an International Lifetime Achievement Award. […]

Patterson Hood “Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams”

March 3, 2025 Tim Martin 0

The unexpected songs impress most on Hood’s fourth solo album. It’s not DBT, but it is an intriguing look at another side of an established name. For his first solo album in 12 years Patterson Hood […]

Reissue: Sukilove “Sukilove”

March 3, 2025 Tim Martin 0

Gentle, pop inflected music with Alt.Country influences mixing with more European sounds. Belgicana? Belgian band Sukilove were built on the songs of singer Pascal Deweze and formed in 2001. After splitting in 2013, they came back […]

Classic Clips: The Delines “Maureen’s Gone Missing” 2022

February 21, 2025 Tim Martin 0

Recorded at Vanløse Stairway, Denmark. It’s a surprise, but a very pleasant one, that at my advanced age I can still get excited about the pending release of an album, or a tour, (or preferably both) […]

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart “Looking For The Thread”

February 17, 2025 Tim Martin 2

A collaboration which draws career best performances from each of the partners on songs which could only have been the work of all three. Combining the talents of three highly individual artists into one album can […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

David Gideon “Lonesome Desert Strum”

December 23, 2021 0

A wide-ranging set of songs with its feet firmly in the past but plenty to offer a modern audience. David Gideon’s upcoming record, ‘Lonesome Desert Strum’, is due for release on January 28th – that’s 2022! He is described […]

Album Reviews

Nathan Jacques “Dark Wanderer and the Bounty Heart”

October 25, 2024 0

Western ‘movie soundtrack’ concept offering with tremendous songs but hamstrung somewhat by its concept nature. Alt-country troubadour Nathan Jacques’ sophomore full-length release “Dark Wanderer and the Bounty Heart” is described by its accompanying PR blurb as […]

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Casper Skulls “Yards” – don’t play with fire

December 8, 2022 0

The important thing to note about this song is that it is a true tale drawn from life, as Melanie St-Pierre of the band explains: “‘Yards’ is a song I wrote about my childhood house burning […]

Articles by Tim Martin

Candi Staton “Back to My Roots”

Patterson Hood “Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams”

Reissue: Sukilove “Sukilove”

Classic Clips: The Delines “Maureen’s Gone Missing” 2022

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart “Looking For The Thread”

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”