Tim Martin

Songdog “A Happy Ending” (Junkyard Songs, 2020)

April 3, 2020 Tim Martin 0

Songdog, Lyndon Morgans and confederates Karl ‘Pod’ Woodward and Dave Paterson have released eight albums without rising above the radar. 2017’s ‘JoyStreet’ was well-reviewed with AUK’s own Jeremy Searle describing Morgans as a genius. Nothing on […]

Johnny Franco “Experience Report #1” (Blanket Fort Records, 2020)

March 12, 2020 Tim Martin 0

The press picture of Johnny Franco, and the description of him as a “moustachioed Brazilian spaghetti western rock and roll troubadour” might set the cliché warning meter running. The opening bars of ‘Treated like Grass’ would […]

The Mastersons “No Time For Love Songs” (Red House Records, 2020)

February 24, 2020 Tim Martin 0

Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore, collectively The Mastersons, spend some of their time as part of Steve Earle’s Dukes. This is their fourth album and starts with the title track, a love song. Produced by Shooter […]

Forgotten Artists – Kevin Brown

February 20, 2020 Tim Martin 3

Back in the early ’80s I misspent my youth in small Bristol venues like The Green Rooms, and The Bridge Inn. In Bath it was The Bell in Walcot Street. All now long gone. There was a […]

The Pedaljets “Twist the Lens” (Electric Moth Records, 2020)

February 13, 2020 Tim Martin 0

Americana is now a very broad church, and The Pedaljets are very much at the outer rock edge of it. Singer Mike Allmayer has a definite touch of Tom Petty about his voice and songs like […]