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Live Review: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa, Oklahoma – 2nd June 2024

June 12, 2024 Paul Dominy 5

Let’s face it, in whichever creative direction he travels, Robert Plant will always be recognized as the strutting, bare-torsoed, former front man of Led Zeppelin. If one had wanted to move on from that phase of […]

Robin Holcolmb “One Way Or Another, Vol. 2”

June 12, 2024 Paul Russell 0

Genre-defying piano/poetry album to calm the soul. How wonderful to have an album that almost defies description. Robin Holcomb is a Seattle-based pianist and singer-songwriter who’s been making music since the term ‘americana’ was originated back […]

Folk Roundup – Anne Briggs, Amelia Coburn, Nate Sabat, Will Page, Martin Simpson, Niamh Bury

June 12, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

The latest edition of our roundup of Folk album mini-reviews veers away from the “fiddles with everything” of the last batch of reviews and heads very definitely into the “mixed bag of folk” direction with perhaps […]

Anna Tivel “Living Thing”

June 12, 2024 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

On ‘Living Thing,’ Oregon’s Anna Tivel demonstrates her worthiness of high praise. Sometimes, as soon as a few first notes of an album’s opening track reach your ears you realize that the artist in question is […]

Nichole Wagner “Plastic Flowers”

June 11, 2024 Lyndon Bolton 0

A study in self-awareness and vulnerability from folk to power pop. The gentle folk to power pop and rock all dusted with a sprinkling of Americana that runs through this record reflects Nichole Wagner’s career to […]