There can be few among us who, whilst revelling in our preferred pastime of listening to and dissecting the songs of our favourite artists. haven’t occasionally thought, “given a fair wind and a wet sail I […]
Released in 1995, ‘Wrecking Ball’, was Emmylou Harris’ eighteenth studio album in a career that stretched all the way back to 1969. The intervening 26 years had seen Harris establish herself at the very forefront of […]
A gem of a record pairing an Americana icon with an up and coming star. Maybe, just maybe, David Olney had saved his best-ever album until last. Having passed away on stage while performing at the […]
The sad death of David Olney has been widely reported, often in some pretty unlikely places (including the S*n, Daily Mail and Daily Express) by a media always looking for a novelty story – ‘folk singer […]
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