Album Reviews
Hanks Company Band “Herb Deluxe”
Smoky blues rising from the swamp. On the strength of its rhythmic swampy blues and rasping vocals laden with soul this must be a record made in Louisiana sometime in the early 1970s. If the name […]
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Old Heavy Hands “Small Fires”
Electric southern rock that’s both grown up and rebellious at the same time. “Heard you were leaving town with some other boy / Looking back on everything that I’ve destroyed / Full of misery and heartache,” […]
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Brown Horse “Reservoir”
A melancholy masterpiece of layered sounds and words of heartache and loneliness. ‘Stealing Horses’, which opens the album neatly sums up the evolution of Brown Horse from folk quartet to Country Rock powerhouse. Accordion mixed with […]
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Lizzie No “Halfsies”
Video games come to americana and the Black country experience. Lizzie No took her stage name from the fact she was always being told “no” as a child, and to remind herself how important it is […]
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Clay Parker & Jodi James “Your Very Own Dream”
Moody, mad and marvellously magical. Absurdity, weird, strange, and chaotic are not words you might expect to employ when describing your work, but these are just a few of the descriptors used by duo Clay Parker […]