Live Reviews
Billy Bragg, The Junction, Cambridge, 26th November 2019
Billy Bragg is out on his “1-step forward, 2-steps back” tour which sees him hit a town for a three night stand – a gig with his current mixed set, a gig drawing solely on his […]
Reviews
Album Reviews
The Bean Pickers Union “Archeology” (Independent, 2019)
‘Archaeology’ by The Bean Pickers Union, a small collective of musicians based in Cambridge Massachusetts, can best be described as authentic Americana. It has got everything you would expect – banjo, pedal steels, and even a […]
Album Reviews
The Milk Carton Kids “The Only Ones” (Thirty Tigers, 2019)
With ‘The Only Ones,’ The Milk Carton Kids go back to their roots: acoustic guitars and ethereal harmonies delivering lyrics that detail all the emotions love evokes. Musical duos will inevitably be compared to those that […]
Album Reviews
Twain “Adventure” (Keeled Scales, 2019)
‘Adventure’ is the follow up to 2017’s highly acclaimed ‘Rare Feeling’ – an album that earned a 10/10 review from fellow Americana-UK writer, Scott Baxter, who described it, at the time, as “the finest album I’ve […]
Album Reviews
Betsy Phillips “Like We’re Talking” (Independent, 2019)
In the 1970s cult science-fiction comedy novel ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, given the billions of planets floating around the universe, the description for Planet Earth is limited to two words: “mostly harmless”. And, regrettably, […]