The songwriting and singing never drop below excellent on a solid debut album. After a couple of years of “lockdown albums” we seem to be moving beyond them to rather more optimistic songwriting. Surge and the […]
If the English-speaking world thinks of her at all, France Gall is best known for winning the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest with a Serge Gainsbourg song ‘Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son‘. The French sixties Ye-Ye […]
If you had a penny for every break up song in the world, you would have a lot of pennies. Cowboy Junkies normally perceptive lyrics are especially on target here. “A candle burning for everything I’ve […]
There are artists who you know you ought to like but it’s hard to find the connection to their music, or they just pass you by for some reason. For me Nanci Griffith fell into that […]
A set of bleak, cinematic, country soul short stories. Oscar winning material. The Delines have described themselves in the past as a “retro-country band.” On ‘The Sea Drift’ you can see why. Built around guitarist/writer Willy […]
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