James Taylor

Interview: Brad Tursi on “Parallel Love”

August 20, 2024 Martin Johnson 2

Filtering James Taylor and Southern rock to distil his own sound. Old Dominion are one of the leading modern country bands with a sound that mixes country, rock & roll and pop. The band was formed […]

Interview: Philip Bowen talks about the Kanawha River and the vampire in Appalachia

August 29, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Appalachia is still a fertile breeding ground for new roots artists. Appalachia has exerted a massive influence on American roots music over the years, being the region where the original Scottish and Irish settler’s music from […]

Interview: Kate Taylor on waiting over 50 years to revisit the sound of “Sister Kate”

September 29, 2022 Martin Johnson 2

Recording again with Peter Asher in LA and touring with Scotland’s Alan Thomson. The only sister of James, Livingstone, Hugh, and Alex, Kate Taylor’s 1971 debut album ‘Sister Kate’ was not just a great listen, it […]

Classic Clips – Gregory Alan Isakov & Passenger “Sweet Baby James”

December 17, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

Two of the finest vocalists and songwriters around today are Colorado-based Gregory Alan Isakov and the UK’s Michael Rosenberg, better known by his stage-name Passenger. Both possess gently intimate voices that draw us into their stories. […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 16

May 5, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 1

Some great days but also some shit… literally. Working in education can be a hard slog as many parents discovered with homeschooling but in the grand scheme of things most of us have to work hard […]

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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 […]

Videos

Video: Ned Roberts “Angel Station”

October 11, 2017 0

Last seen round these parts with the wonderful Lights On The River, this is London man Ned Roberts’ latest single our on October 20th, a lovely piece of country-hued melancholy taken from his album Outside My […]

News

Long Ryders have new album next year, expanded old albums this year

November 29, 2018 0

We don’t deserve this, really we don’t. The Long Ryders have just announced the release date for their new album ‘Psychedelic Country Soul‘ as the 15th of February 2019 – get that in your diaries. It’s […]

Album Reviews

Magnolia Red “Ancient River” (Independent, 2020)

February 17, 2020 0

Magnolia Red are a band from the Norwegian North West Coast and their debut album ‘Ancient River’ takes us on a journey through all the different varieties of Americana music. Like their previous releases, the album […]

Interview: Brad Tursi on “Parallel Love”

Interview: Philip Bowen talks about the Kanawha River and the vampire in Appalachia

Interview: Kate Taylor on waiting over 50 years to revisit the sound of “Sister Kate”

Classic Clips – Gregory Alan Isakov & Passenger “Sweet Baby James”

Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 16

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”