Videos
Video Review of the Year 2024
Here we are again, hurtling towards another Christmas and another year. Time flies when we’re having fun, so 2024 must have been a good one. An election in the UK gave me some hope. An election […]
American Aquarium
Essentials
Essentials: The Top Ten American Aquarium Songs
I am a huge fan of American Aquarium’s muscular alt-country with its great tunes and often anthemic choruses. They put the country into their alt-country with a liberal dose of wonderful pedal steel, which is never […]
Live Reviews
Live Review: American Aquarium + The Watson Twins, Greenfield Lake, Wilmington, NC, 30th August 2024
So I’m putting in the work / I’m digging in the dirt / I’m replanting my Southern roots. Having southern roots is first and foremost a matter of growing up in a deeply conflicted region and […]
Live Reviews
Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Stanford Hall, Leicestershire – Friday 23rd August 2024
The Long Road festival is now a fixture in the calendar of fans of country and americana music with its welcoming family friendly atmosphere and its broad range of established and upcoming acts across six stages. […]
Album Reviews
American Aquarium “The Fear of Standing Still”
Visceral personal narrative and social comment in folk-rock setting. American Aquarium CDs sit next to those of the Drive by Truckers and Jason Isbell in this reviewer’s collection. Isbell and DBT stalwart Patterson Hood would doubtless […]