Tim Martin

Live Review: The Delines + Freddy Trujillo, Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth – 15th June 2024

June 21, 2024 Tim Martin 0

This was the final date of a brief tour, built around an appearance at Black Deer Festival the previous day. With only five shows the band were very much in “lets have fun with it” mode. […]

Jesse Daniel “Countin’ The Miles”

June 18, 2024 Tim Martin 0

Country in the Merle Haggard tradition played and sung with passion and panache. The opening song and lead single ‘Comin’ Apart At The Seams’ sets the tone for Jesse Daniel’s new album. The chorus: “This old […]

Bluegrass Briefs – Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, EZRA, Pine Tree Flyers, Jeff Curtis

May 22, 2024 Tim Martin 1

Bluegrass continues to be a broad church, and all the better for it. Where some aspects of roots music seem stuck in their own self-imposed niches, Bluegrass draws influences from anywhere that has good ideas to […]

Book Review: The Blind Boys of Alabama with Preston Lauterbach “Spirit of the Century”

May 9, 2024 Tim Martin 0

Calling itself, “an insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical colleagues, drawing from the […]

Bruce Springsteen “Best of Bruce Springsteen”

May 8, 2024 Tim Martin 0

A good introduction to the work of one of the great artists, which should prompt a new listener to dig further. What in 2024 constitutes the best of Bruce Springsteen and can it be encapsulated on […]