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Southern Fried Festival, Perth, Scotland, 26-29th July 2018

August 8, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

Eleven years old this year Southern Fried continues to occupy its position as the best Americana and roots music festival in Scotland and perhaps the best of its kind in the UK (although there are three […]

Ray Davies “Our Country: Americana: Act II” (Sony, 2018)

August 7, 2018 Mark Johnson 0

‘Our Country’ is the follow up to Ray Davies’s first Americana record which was itself preceded by his like-named memoir. The two albums’ artwork are identical other than the original Stars & Stripes silhouette replaced by […]

Rayland Baxter “Wide Awake” (ATO Records, 2018)

August 6, 2018 MD Spenser 0

This album is wonderful musically, if somewhat inscrutable lyrically – at least initially. To write these 10 songs, Baxter set himself up alone in an abandoned rubber band factory in Kentucky, covered the windows, slept on […]

Ethan Johns and The Black Eyed Dogs, Servant Jazz Quarters, London, 30th July 2018

August 6, 2018 Mark Underwood 0

“I hate name droppers,” Ethan Johns announces early in his set before recounting a session in which he got to record with some of the most famous names in rock music. It’s a conceit for which […]

Graham Nash “Over the Years” (Rhino, 2018)

August 3, 2018 Jonathan Aird 1

Didn’t we just have a 3 disc Graham Nash retrospective? Well, no – sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings but the ‘Reflections‘ Box Set was nine years ago. True, this release adds only one […]