Joana Serrat

Live Review: The Ramblin’ Roots Revue 2026, New Buckinghamshire University – 10th-12th April 2026

April 23, 2026 NickBarber 2

Once again, the High Wycombe Travelodge girded its loins for its busiest weekend of the year, as the crowds gathered from near and far (but mostly far) for the next instalment of the first of the […]

Joana Serrat “Big Wave”

July 18, 2024 Andy Davidson 0

Time stretching and pitch shifting depths. Luddites best stop reading now. The sixth album from Catalan folk artist Joana Serrat is a sonic tsunami. Turbulent changes in Serrat’s personal life along with challenging times in the […]

Artwork for Joana Serrat album "Riders of the Canyon"

Riders of the Canyon “Riders of the Canyon”

July 17, 2023 David Jarman 0

Joana Serrat’s band project ‘Riders of the Canyon’ blends classic Americana influences in ten-song collection. Well known on these shores for her excellent solo work, most recently her 2021 release ‘Hardcore From The Heart’, Joana Serrat’s […]

Joana Serrat “Hardcore from the Heart”

June 7, 2021 Peter Tomkins 0

Dense, personal and strangely anthemic fifth album from Catalonian singer. ‘Hardcore From The Heart‘ is an album steeped in contradictions. Joana Serrat writes beautifully fragile and diaphanous songs then surrounds them in arrangements of muscular force […]

Shuffle: The joy of repetition

June 4, 2021 David Cowling 0

As you should know by now if you have been following this column, whatever I write is inspired by whatever comes up on my iPod in shuffle mode. This week I was minded to interrupt the […]

Phil Odgers & John Kettle “The War is Over – The Songs of Phil Ochs Vol 2”

August 6, 2026 0

A respectful and traditional tribute to Phil Ochs. Volume 1 of this collaborative tribute by Phil Odgers of The Men They Couldn’t Hang and John Kettle of Merry Hell was birthed in the dark days of […]

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

August 6, 2026 0

For more than two decades, Freddy Trujillo has quietly built one of the most distinctive careers in American roots music. Whether anchoring the rhythm section as bassist for Richmond Fontaine and The Delines or as a […]

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

August 6, 2026 0

Railcard’s new single from their debut album Two Steps At A Time, is a softly sunny power pop take on a common problem – the unreasonable person who lives next door. Tell us about it. Although […]

Live Review: The Ramblin’ Roots Revue 2026, New Buckinghamshire University – 10th-12th April 2026

Joana Serrat “Big Wave”

Riders of the Canyon “Riders of the Canyon”

Joana Serrat “Hardcore from the Heart”

Shuffle: The joy of repetition

Phil Odgers & John Kettle “The War is Over – The Songs of Phil Ochs Vol 2”

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

Video: Karl Bray “Marianne”

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