Tim Martin

Bluegrass Briefs – March 2023

March 10, 2023 Tim Martin 1

For our second look at the world of Bluegrass we are stretching the definition a little, with a couple of albums that sit as close to contemporary country as to traditional Bluegrass. The first album however […]

Paperback Riders – Armistead Maupin “Tales of the City”

February 24, 2023 Tim Martin 0

Many of Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle’s novels started life as magazine serials. This way of publishing new work remained popular in the USA and the first four titles in the ‘Tales of the City’ […]

Hollow Hand “Your Own Adventure”

February 22, 2023 Tim Martin 0

Gentle 60s and folk-inspired indie pop. Hold onto this one for the summer. The title Max Kinghorn-Mills has given Hollow Hand’s 3rd album, ‘Your Own Adventure’, speaks to the DIY attitude of the recording. “About just […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers) Albums

February 2, 2023 Tim Martin 5

In the midst of punk, new wave and whatever else was happening in 1977, the first Tom Petty album crept out and took a year to reach the US charts. In the UK the reaction was […]

Rhys Duursma “Songs From Swan Street Vol.1”

February 2, 2023 Tim Martin 0

A debut EP with lots of promise and directions to follow. Australian singer-songwriter Rhys Duursma’s debut solo EP starts with ‘Same Old’, a fairly routine piece of folk music, which mutates halfway through into a dusty […]

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

September 21, 2026 2

If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]

Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

September 21, 2026 0

A cycle of Appalachian folk songs from writer and activist Si Kahn, subtitled Songs for Strong Kentucky Women The subtitle for this album is “Si Kahn’s Songs for Strong Kentucky Women”. Si Kahn is one of […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”