David Berkeley

David Berkeley “Oh My America” – when the dream gets tarnished

October 15, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

David Berkeley’s latest song takes a fairly bleak look at his homeland – a land which is riven with distrust and hatred, where the old ideas of working together for a better world have given way […]

David Berkeley “A Pail Full of Fire”

August 30, 2024 Andy Short 0

Appreciate the beauty of the poetry. Berkeley is the American half of ‘Sons of Town Hall’, where he is joined by Ben Parker, producing some truly memorable music that is worth checking out. “A Pail Full […]

Video: David Berkeley “Beside the Shuttered Doors”

June 23, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

The eerie, empty streets of New York reinforce the prayer-like quality of this delicate new single from David Berkeley. The powerful fan-made video was created by Ehud Lazin, using iPhone photographs taken during the pandemic. The […]

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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”

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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 […]

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

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An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]

David Berkeley “Oh My America” – when the dream gets tarnished

David Berkeley “A Pail Full of Fire”

Video: David Berkeley “Beside the Shuttered Doors”

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

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