Tim Martin

Classic Clips: Peter Bruntnell “By The Time My Head Gets To Phoenix”

October 7, 2022 Tim Martin 1

One of the best things about festivals is the chance to hear new artists, or ones who have passed you by a bit. I arrived at Americana Festival in Bath in the summer not knowing much […]

Sons of the East “Palomar Parade”

October 5, 2022 Tim Martin 0

The ingredients for a great album are all here, look for that greatness on their next record. It’s taken 10 years for Sons Of The East to release an album. Having been a live and streaming […]

Paperback Riders: David N Meyer “Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music”

September 30, 2022 Tim Martin 0

A quick look around Good Reads finds twelve biographies that are either directly about Parsons, or about the bands he was part of. So, if we are picking one source to learn about Gram Parsons why […]

Kim Ware and the Good Graces “Ready”

September 22, 2022 Tim Martin 0

Thought provoking words, and dreamy guitar based music that grows on you with a few listens. Ready is an album made up of pre-pandemic songs mixed with a few written under Lockdown.. Opening song ‘Capital R’ […]

Nick Cory Young “Crow Got Drunk”

September 21, 2022 Tim Martin 0

A love letter to the music of the 90s that stands with the best of the decade. Young’s website tells us that he “writes and performs indie rock with a touch of twang, sounding like a cross […]

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”