Features
Discovering… Nanci Griffith
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 […]
Articles by Tim Martin
Album Reviews
The Delines “The Sea Drift”
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 […]
Features
AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Tim Martin
It can be easy to wallow in the past with so many classic albums to choose from, but as my much younger colleague Kimberley Bright pointed out in her entry in this series, so many artists […]
Album Reviews
William Russell Wallace “Confidence Man”
Rock n Roll to make you dance and character-driven songs to make you think. If there’s a blueprint for the perfect album then rule number one must be to have a great opening track, and William […]
Album Reviews
Gabriel Moreno “The Year of the Rat”
Thought provoking words about the struggles of life, over a sparse intimate soundtrack A quote from Cerys Matthews is front and centre of all Moreno’s publicity. “An offshoot of Leonard Cohen and Neil Diamond.” Fortunately, this […]