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Patterson Hood “Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams”

March 3, 2025 Tim Martin 0

The unexpected songs impress most on Hood’s fourth solo album. It’s not DBT, but it is an intriguing look at another side of an established name. For his first solo album in 12 years Patterson Hood […]

Reissue: Sukilove “Sukilove”

March 3, 2025 Tim Martin 0

Gentle, pop inflected music with Alt.Country influences mixing with more European sounds. Belgicana? Belgian band Sukilove were built on the songs of singer Pascal Deweze and formed in 2001. After splitting in 2013, they came back […]

JD Clayton “Blue Sky Sundays”

February 27, 2025 Fiona Golden 0

Clayton celebrates the land and music that raised him, and the joy in his growing family. No, not that JD. Singer-songwriter JD Clayton has returned for his sophomore album twinged with a little more blues sound […]

Artwork for Edith Frost album "In Space"

Edith Frost “In Space”

February 27, 2025 Peter Thompson 0

Back after a break of almost 20 years, Edith Frost returns with an atmospheric album of great songs. Noted tunesmith Edith Frost describes her music as “pensive countrified psychedelia“. Throughout her career, Frost has never been […]

Luke Sital-Singh “Fool’s Spring”

February 26, 2025 Guy Lincoln 0

Gentle upbeat reflection of life’s ups and downs from returning singer-songwriter. A ‘Fool’s Spring’ is essentially a quixotic false dawn. We are lulled into believing that the worst of winter is done for another year, discarding […]

Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

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It is sometimes forgotten that Gram Parsons did not enjoy commercial success as a solo artist during his short life, and that it was Emmylou Harris who took his sound to a wider audience with the […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads

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It would be strange to start things off by actually introducing Lucinda Williams, so let’s begin with a justification instead: Williams has been at it since her 1979 debut Ramblin’ Woman, though she only truly broke […]

artwork for Adam Beattie album "Home Fires Burning"

Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

July 2, 2026 0

The hero’s journey echoed in the experiences of an everyman. It might be an exaggeration to say there are as many types of songwriters as there are songwriters, but then again, it might not. As well […]