Cowboy Junkies

Video: Cowboy Junkies “Shadows 2”

June 8, 2023 Ed Donnelly 0

Many acts that are decades into their careers will lean heavily on the sounds and themes that first caught the attention of fans in their early years, leading to watered-down, inauthentic material they can sandwich in […]

Video: Cowboys Junkies “Hard to Build. Easy to Break”

May 15, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

New music from Cowboy Junkies is something to get excited about and the wonderfully-written ‘Hard to Build. Easy to Break’ meets those high expectations. This is masterful music, incredibly atmospheric and delivered in growing, swelling layers […]

Cowboy Junkies to release new album in June

May 9, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

Cowboy Junkies have announced their latest album, ‘Such Ferocious Beauty,‘ which will be released on June 2nd on Cooking Vinyl. This, probably the Canadian lo-fi band’s 20th album, is their first album in five years, following […]

Video: Cowboy Junkies “What I Lost”

April 17, 2023 Ed Donnelly 0

The Cowboy Junkies return with their first new material in five years with ‘What I Lost’. This is a poignant and heartbreaking song about dementia. The imagery in the video centres on the father of four […]

Live Review: Cowboy Junkies, Royal Festival Hall, London – 27th November 2022

December 7, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 9

If there was an award for the most understated arrival on stage Cowboy Junkies would be strong contenders. For a show of such total immersion into a deep well of genres, whether their own material or […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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Interview: The Gibson Brothers’ Eric Gibson on their Darkest Hour

March 28, 2023 2

Mixing country, bluegrass, and ‘70s singer-songwriters to make The Gibson Brother’s sound. The Gibson Brothers have been playing bluegrass for more than thirty years, and have won numerous bluegrass awards and shared the stage and studio […]

Album Reviews

The Gills “In the Beginning”

February 5, 2021 0

A surprising debut from husband a wife duo The Gills Liz and Tim Gill are one of the couples that have found perfect harmony during the lockdown: literally. A married couple from Baltimore in the US, […]

Album Reviews

Jaime Wyatt “Feel Good”

November 7, 2023 0

Nashville storyteller’s permission to let go. Since her debut release back in 2017 with ‘Felony Blues’, Jaime Wyatt has made a big impression with her honesty and lyrical wit in her infectious music. Her third album […]

Video: Cowboy Junkies “Shadows 2”

Video: Cowboys Junkies “Hard to Build. Easy to Break”

Cowboy Junkies to release new album in June

Video: Cowboy Junkies “What I Lost”

Live Review: Cowboy Junkies, Royal Festival Hall, London – 27th November 2022

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”