Here’s some real world ropin’ and ridin’ from Texan Garret Bradford on ‘This Way of Life’. This is a featured track from Bradford’s two-part release from H.O.T. Records, ‘Honkiest of Tonkers’. Part one is available now and part two will be available on 11th April 2025. Watchers of the television cowboy soap opera ‘Yellowstone’ will recognize this song from season three. A sparse acoustic guitar is the only accompaniment for the lyrics that lament the looming death of the cowboy way of life. This is not cowboy cosplay however; Bradford brings his life experience growing up as the son of a Texas horse trader.
‘Grounded in the Clouds’ is the second album from Bristol, UK-based folk singer, Lauren Bradford. Previously hailing from San Francisco bay, Bradford has also lived across the UK taking in Liverpool, Leeds, London and Bath. Unsurprisingly, the theme of travel is apparent in the album, but equally strong are representations…
Well that's it for this week. Bradford Lee Folk and the Bluegrass Playboys produced an album of the very finest cosmic-bluegrass. Sadly they made it a long time ago - and there's no sign of there ever being a follow-up to 2014's 'Somewhere Far Away'. A pity. But on 'The…
Toronto's Eric & The Soo have a new song out, 'We Will Stay The Same', and this one is a co-write between band leader Eric Brombacher and guitarist/harpist Ken Yoshioka. It's a song that makes a commitment to...well, not changing. In a world of shifting sands it speaks of finding…
Ed Donnelly is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and record producer from Los Angeles. He has worked with Willie Nelson, Crowded House, Marc Cohn, Jools Holland, Matchbox Twenty, The Cult, BoyHaunt, Gladys Knight, Trent Summar and The West Coast Mob, Smashing Pumpkins, Del McCoury, OK Go, Exodus, Molly Leach, Tom Morello, O.A.R., Madness, The Crystal Method, DrunkHungry, Deadmau5, Zac Brown, CrysP Tyger, Bighead Todd and the Monsters, Jake Shimabukuro, Barenaked Ladies, Tsar, Killola and more. Donnelly regularly performs with Nathan Jacques as well as Little Silver Hearts and records with GhostsDream. Little known fact: He previously held Top Secret Security Clearance with the U.S. Department of State and Q Clearance from the Department of Energy.
He currently runs The Barber’s Basement Recording Studio in Highland Park and is a partner in The Atmos at Lemontree Studio.
