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John Jenkins “If You Can’t Forgive You Can’t Love”

July 28, 2021 Tim Martin 0

A varied collection of strong songs that repays repeated plays. After being involved with Liverpool bands The Persuaders and Come in Tokio in the 80s, John Jenkins reappeared in 2015. He says of the shift from […]

Seafoam Green “Martin’s Garden”

July 27, 2021 Ben Roberts 0

Some of the coolest and gnarliest riffs in Americana today. The press release for this album contains the words “featuring some of the world’s gnarliest players”. If that phrase isn’t going to draw you to an […]

Paperback Riders: Michael Herr “Dispatches”

July 27, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 0

A classic account of a defining American nightmare. The Vietnam war was a watershed event in recent American history and one that is beyond the experience of the corresponding generation in Britain who never had to […]

Trevor Sensor “On Account of Exile, Vol. 1”

July 27, 2021 Peter Tomkins 0

A monumental folk-symphonic celebration of our triumph over darkness and misery. Probably. There are some musicians who seem to reveal so much of their inner torment at times that you wonder how they can perform these […]

Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real “A Few Stars Apart”

July 26, 2021 Kimberly Bright 0

Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real look inward and cherish simplicity and community on their new release. Not many young singer-songwriters can say that they were the inspiration behind the character in a film, whether […]