Album Reviews
Laura Veirs “Found Light”
More Blood. More Tracks. Laura Veirs examines the fall out of divorce. If 2020’s release ‘My Echo‘ was the album that saw Veirs document the move towards her divorce from Tucker Martine at the end of […]
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Fireside Collective “Across The Divide”
Unashamedly bluegrass, but bloody good bluegrass. Fireside Collective wouldn’t be the first band to have used the forced isolation of lockdown to inspire a songwriting retreat of sorts. Indeed, it has inspired a whole raft of […]
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Luther Black and the Cold Hard Facts “Moment of Truth”
Echoes of Dylan and Chris Gaffney in a fine collection from multi-instrumentalist Rick Wagner’s band project. ‘Moments of Truth’ is Luther Black and the Cold Hard Facts, the band project fronted by Rick Wagner, the follow-up […]
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Nick Pagliari “Hard Lessons”
A blend of influences that produce a good, if not startlingly original, album. One of the figures who looms largest as an influence on the current crop of Americana artists is tom Petty. The opening title […]
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Dawes “The Misadventures of Doomscroller”
Dawes expand their horizons and deliver a complex and brilliant album for our times. Dawes is a 4 piece band from southern California that erupted onto the country rock/Americana scene in 2009. Named after the middle […]