Album Reviews
Paul J Bolger “Paul J Bolger” (Wolfe Island, 2020)
Paul J Bolger says of his new self titled album: “After a lifetime spent shifting between music, visual art and film I am doing what I want to do at an age some might say I […]
Articles by Tim Martin
Album Reviews
Mike Plume “Lonesome Stretch Of Highway” (Royalty Records, 2020)
Mike Plume “is a true alt-country legend in Canada, with a dozen releases since his debut in 1993,” according to his press. Having not encountered him before ‘Lonesome Stretch Of Highway’ comes as a pleasant discovery […]
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Forgotten Artists – Willy DeVille
Americana is often described as a mix of many different strands of American music. Rock, of all sorts, country, blues, folk and gospel all blended together. Willy DeVille, whether under his own name, or earlier as […]
Album Reviews
B. Knox “Heartbreak & Landscape” (Three Mast, 2020)
B. Knox’s debut album pulls on most of the threads of Americana. Pedal steel guitar and a stately pace mark out opener ‘Deep Dark Love’, and a Neil Young guitar line shapes ‘Corners’. Barroom piano punctuates […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Willie Nelson “City of New Orleans”
The previous Chain Gang link, The Highwaymen, featured Willie Nelson among their all-star lineup. Their debut album which featured our chosen song ‘Desperados Waiting For A Train’ also carried a Steve Goodman/John Prine song, ‘The Twentieth […]