Tim Martin

Sylvie Simmons “Blue on Blue” (Compass, 2020)

September 8, 2020 Tim Martin 0

If Sylvie Simmons’ name is familiar it is probably as a writer for Mojo, The Guardian and of several books, including a particularly good biography of Leonard Cohen. Her press release states rather oddly that: “When […]

Classic Americana Albums: Warren Zevon “Warren Zevon” (Asylum, 1976)

September 2, 2020 Tim Martin 4

With his third album release, ‘Excitable Boy’ Warren Zevon hit the charts with the single ‘Werewolves of London’. It is still his best-selling album overall. But the self-titled album that preceded it set the seal on […]

Classic Americana Albums: The Band “The Band” (Capitol, 1969)

August 19, 2020 Tim Martin 2

There are a number of albums that can claim to have kicked off Americana, Flying Burrito Brothers, Dylan, or CSN, but the one that really embodied the American spirit and turned it into a new sort […]

Review: Uncut’s “Wilco – The Ultimate Music Guide”

August 13, 2020 Tim Martin 1

With their ‘Sounds of the New West’ compilations Uncut has always been the most likely of the major music magazines to cover “our” sort of music. They also publish a series of “Ultimate Music Guides” examining […]

Ted Russell Kamp “Down in the Den” (PoMo Records, 2020)

August 4, 2020 Tim Martin 0

Ted Russell Kamp has released 12 albums over the last fifteen years, while holding down a career as session bass player to country and americana stars of all sorts, most recently Tanya Tucker. Opening song ‘Home […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

News

Los Lobos have new album ready to go

June 15, 2021 0

It would be stretching credulity beyond breaking point to conceive of the idea that anyone reading this present music website does not know who Los Lobos are. Forty eight years into their career the band return […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Greenfield Lake, Wilmington, NC – 8th September 2024

October 11, 2024 0

Criss-crossing America on their colossal “Down the Rabbit Hole” tour, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway chugged into Wilmington, North Carolina as if on a whistle stop political campaign for a show at Greenfield Lake and lit […]

Features

Ten americana songs of protest

June 16, 2020 0

An infamous Mancunian once thought that if you played the acoustic guitar, it meant you were a protest singer. Whilst the playing of that instrument may not earn you the right to musical protestation, the artists […]

Articles by Tim Martin

Sylvie Simmons “Blue on Blue” (Compass, 2020)

Classic Americana Albums: Warren Zevon “Warren Zevon” (Asylum, 1976)

Classic Americana Albums: The Band “The Band” (Capitol, 1969)

Review: Uncut’s “Wilco – The Ultimate Music Guide”

Ted Russell Kamp “Down in the Den” (PoMo Records, 2020)

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”