Album Reviews
Jess Jocoy “Brighter Eyes”
A superb four-song taster for Jess Jocoy’s next album. Early in 2020, Jess Jocoy was on a roll. Her debut album ‘Such A Long Way’ was garnering some superb reviews and Nashville radio station WSM (home […]
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Album Reviews
JP Harris’ Dreadful Wind and Rain “Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man”
Folk perfection from JP Harris and Chance McCoy Just when you think you know JP Harris as the real-deal no bullshit slightly Outlaw Country musician with the voice that has been more than lived in he […]
Album Reviews
Jeremy James Meyer “Alive & OK”
Seattle based songwriter serves up an appetising smorgasbord of raw roots styles for his second album. Jeremy James Meyer is not a name that is widely known in the UK but on the evidence of his […]
Book Reviews
Paperback Riders: Studs Terkel “American Dreams: Lost and Found”
America’s premier oral historian investigates its abiding myth. On the website of the publisher, New Press, in an uncredited paragraph, ‘American Dreams: Lost and Found’, and its author, Studs Terkel, is described as follows: “Terkel persuades […]
Album Reviews
K.C. Jones “Queen of the In Between”
The first solo album from the talented singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist K.C. Jones is an impressive dive into old and new Americana. K.C. Jones (a.k.a. Kelli Jones-Savoy) may be deeply influenced by divergent styles of music, but […]