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Elaine Lennon “Elaine Lennon” (Independent, 2019)

January 17, 2020 Ewan Lury 0

A highly-anticipated debut album is a phrase that is all too common these days. But to say this album is anything but that is truly an understatement. Nashville Songwriters’ Association International 2019 ‘One To Watch’, Elaine […]

The Pine Hearts “Back To Sustain” (Independent, 2020)

January 17, 2020 Paul Kerr 0

The Pine Hearts sound just like you would expect a band who hail from the foothills of Washington State’s Cascade Mountains to sound like. A three-piece string band, they are as refreshing as a mountain stream […]

The Southern Fold “Bible Fear” (Independent, 2019)

January 17, 2020 Helen Jones 0

If the artwork and name of Irish group The Southern Fold’s debut album doesn’t give you enough of a clue as to its prominent theme, then the titles of the songs surely will: ‘Blood of Life’, […]

Buffalo Jones “Standing By” (Independent, 2019)

January 16, 2020 Harold Hogan 0

Buffalo Jones have been releasing music and playing together for over ten years now, and their latest release is shot through with a suitably reflective tone. There are songs about loss, heartbreak, the realities of touring, […]

VanWyck “Molten Rock” (Maiden Name Records, 2019)

January 16, 2020 Russell Murphy 1

Following on from the success of her debut album ‘An Average Woman’ in 2018, Amsterdam singer-songwriter VanWyck brings us ‘Molten Rock’, an album dealing with the complexities, paradoxes and even the duplicities that make us all […]

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John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
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Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
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Liz stringer ‘ first time really feeling’Melbourne song...
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@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
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Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive
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The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)
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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Little Feat after Lowell George

May 20, 2026 2

I’ve gone on record as proclaiming Waiting For Columbus one of the best live albums in the universe, so I took a long time to reconcile myself to the fact that the band had a life […]

Steep Canyon Rangers “Next Act”

May 20, 2026 0

Time to secure your first-class ticket to a bluegrass celebration. Steep Canyon Rangers have been around a long time and continue to produce fine music, and their live performances are legendary. Next Act is their fifteenth […]

Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0

There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

Interviews

Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0

Interviews

Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2

Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]

Interviews

Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1

At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

Album Reviews

Vanessa Peters “Flying on Instruments”

March 5, 2024 0

Texan singer-songwriter leaves the past and steps bravely into her new world. After majoring in creative writing at the prestigious A & M University in Texas, Vanessa Peters was set to become a novelist. Instead, with […]

Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Ani DiFranco “Not A Pretty Girl”

June 2, 2021 0

‘Not A Pretty Girl’ captures an intriguing portrait of songwriter, musician, poet, and political activist Ani DiFranco as a young woman. It was her sixth studio album on Righteous Babe Records, the label she started at […]

Videos

Video: Afton Wolfe “Interrogations”

July 21, 2020 0

The new video from Afton Wolfe is beautifully animated, serving as a perfect accompaniment to his intriguing lyrics. Wolfe describes his approach to lyrics, which tend to be obscure but based on real, personal experiences, as: […]