Tim Martin

Anniversary Cheers – Smoke Fairies “Wild Winter” celebrates 10 years

December 10, 2024 Tim Martin 0

Seasonal albums tend to have a certain sentimentality about them that reflects the traditional view of Christmas as a time good cheer, family fun and soft-focus TV ads. So, when it appeared 10 years ago ‘Wild […]

Paperback Riders: Willy Vlautin’s short audio fiction

December 9, 2024 Tim Martin 0

Willy Vlautin has now produced three spoken word albums. Some of them connected to his novels, some of them standalone. As the first has a festive theme, and is narrated by Vlautin, who has also narrated […]

Haley Heynderickx “Seed Of A Seed”

December 2, 2024 Tim Martin 0

An album that needs some hard listening to appreciate– but rewards it with layers of beauty and complexity. To Oregon songwriter Haley Heynderickx, “a seed represents incubation and the process of navigating the darkest, deepest parts […]

Bluegrass Briefs: Charlotte Carrivick, Hills of Belgium, Appalachian Smoke

November 26, 2024 Tim Martin 0

Bluegrass is a worldwide phenomenon. In recent episodes we have had Eastern Europe and Canada. This time we have Belgium and Wiltshire. The circular nature of musical influences which we find in so much of the […]

Hannah Scott “Absence Of Doubt”

November 13, 2024 Tim Martin 2

Forget genre and just listen to a songwriter who is working at the peak of her power. Fifteen years and a dozen releases into her career you might expect Hannah Scott to have settled into a […]