Columns
Shuffle: European Championship Special
With the Euros dominating the media agenda at the moment it got me to thinking how much do I really know about Americana music in the countries that are a part of 2020? I found myself […]
Giant Sand
Live Reviews
Giant Sand + Patsy’s Rats, Oran Mor, Glasgow, 10th June 2018
Never a man to resist a whim, Howe Gelb has resurrected the band title he retired a few years back and re-recorded the first album which came out under the Giant Sand name, 1985’s ‘Valley of […]
News
Giant Sand return to their Valley of Rain
35 years after releasing their debut album, ‘Valley of Rain’, Howe Gelb and his Tucson based tearaways Giant Sand have only gone and re recorded the whole shebang and following on a clutch of shows in […]
News
The Lost Brothers announce special Dublin show with Howe Gelb
It has just been announced that on Friday June 8th the Lost Brothers, Oisin Leech and Mark McCausland, will have very special guests at their homecoming gig at Dublin’s historic Liberty Hall Theatre on Eden Quay. For one night only the […]
Album Reviews
Ed Romanoff “The Orphan King” (PineRock Production, 2018)
Ed Romanoff is a storyteller, his songs vehicles for the narratives, and stories we get whether they be ghost Miss Worby’s Ghost, the freak show Elephant Man, crime The Ballad of Willie Sutton, and of course […]