Tim Martin

I Write The Songs – Kate And Anna McGarrigle

March 31, 2022 Tim Martin 0

For this month’s article in our “I Write The Songs…” series, Tim Martin steps up to tell us about the Canadian sisters who started their outstanding musical careers crafting songs for others to sing. While their […]

Surge and the Swell “Offering”

March 17, 2022 Tim Martin 0

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 […]

The Other Side of Me: Tim Martin takes us across the Channel to explore the delights of France Gall

March 16, 2022 Tim Martin 0

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 […]

Classic Clips: Cowboy Junkies – “Common Disaster” 1996

March 4, 2022 Tim Martin 0

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 […]

Discovering… Nanci Griffith

February 28, 2022 Tim Martin 2

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 […]