Album Reviews
Billy Strings “Renewal”
Rising star flat picker Strings and his band deliver a vigorous blend of bluegrass and contemporary styles with fine lyrics. Billy Strings has come to be rightly regarded as one of the rising stars of the […]
Reviews
Album Reviews
Various Artists “Home In This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dustbowl Ballads”
81 years after it was released, fourteen artists give their take on Woody Guthrie’s classic album “Dust Bowl Blues” In 1940 Woody Guthrie released his album ‘Dust Bowl Ballads’ consisting of 12 songs about the drought […]
Album Reviews
Matt Patershuk “An Honest Effort”
Singer-songwriting at its most imaginative and mischievous. Canadian Matt Patershuk, is a storyteller. A storyteller in the best traditions of the singer-songwriting genre. But this storyteller tells tales with a twinkle in his eye and the […]
Live Reviews
Live Review: Doghouse Roses + Kim Oehme with Cahalen Morrison, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow – 30th October 2021
It’s still enough of a novelty to go to a gig that much of the pleasure is derived from seeing faces from the past and catching up after almost two years of enforced isolation. Sure enough, […]
Album Reviews
The Moon Shells “Earth”
Simple songs, and a sound from another time make this an album which stands out from the modern crowd. The Moon Shells are a 5 piece band who say that they “draw from the traditional music […]