Features
VERSIONS: “Don’t It Make You Wanna Dance?”
Sometimes, when none of the news is good, you need a song that reminds you of the simple pleasures in life. A song to play when you’re heading out, maybe for some live music or the […]
Bonnie Raitt
AUK's Chain Gang
AUK’s Chain Gang: one of the most emotionally raw songs ever written, “I Can’t Make You Love Me”
So we finished a fascinating chain in the last piece with Shirley Collins and ‘Adieu To All Judges and Juries’. So, there were two routes to potentially go to follow that track – ‘legal’ or ‘au […]
Live Reviews
Review – Black Deer Festival 2023: Britain’s premier Americana event continues to grow
This year’s Black Deer was the fourth since it began in 2018 with an enforced break in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. It seems a good time then, to take stock and reflect on […]
Features
Live Preview: Black Deer Festival, Eridge Park, Kent – 16th-18th June 2023
At last last year’s Black Deer Festival, a moment of high drama saw an electrical storm and a huge downpour bring an early end to Saturday night’s proceedings. With just days to go before the first […]
Live Reviews
Live review: Bonnie Raitt + Gareth Dunlop, London Palladium – 3rd June 2023
Taking my seat at this beautiful old venue, I gazed across the stalls to a familiar sea of grey hair, white hair or no hair left at all. That’s par for the course with “legacy artists” […]