Justin Rutledge

Justin Rutledge “Something Easy”

June 15, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

Smooth, smooth sounds of summer? Opening with the lines ‘I was an angry young man’ this album attempts to wrongfoot listeners with its sentiments whilst delivering a shimmering, melodic, slowly building ballad tinged with melancholy. By […]

Justin Rutledge “Mary” – remembering a favourite person

May 17, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

What is this – midweek already? How can that be? Feeling run-ragged? Same. We should just slope off and grab a flat white and find somewhere quiet and out of the way and just blow a […]

Video: Justin Rutledge “Easy”

March 9, 2023 Ed Donnelly 1

Simple black and White line drawings reflect the stripped-down music in the video for Justin Rutledge’s ‘Easy’. The song lilts along as female backing vocals join Rutledge’s voice. Strings soar as the monochrome chromatic images of […]

Justin Rutledge “Islands”

March 19, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

How to revisit your younger self and make timeless music for today. This album is a joy due to its simplicity, however, simplicity does not mean it lacks sophistication. It manages to capture the pure essence […]

Interview: Canadian Justin Rutledge on revisiting and simplifying his greatest songs

March 16, 2021 Martin Johnson 2

Despite a literary background songwriter Justin Rutledge now believes simple songs work best. Justin Rutledge owes the UK a lot in that it was the UK success of his debut album ‘No Never Alone’ that really […]

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Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

March 20, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new song from British slacker twang quartet Brown Horse, the third and final single from their upcoming album Total Dive […]

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

March 20, 2026 1

Danny George Wilson delivers a reflective and beautifully crafted set of songs exploring loss, memory, and the difficult business of moving on. Danny George Wilson follows up the Danny & The Champions of the World album, […]

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

March 20, 2026 0

Tampa-born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Thomas Dollbaum has announced his new album Birds of Paradise, “a goodbye letter to lost loved ones and former selves,” which will come out on May 22 via Dear Life Records, and […]

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 […]

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Dirty Dozen: Country Lips

December 22, 2016 0

Party country from the Pacific Northwest, this is the real country music. An eight-piece honky-tonk band with a focus on the hard-edged, hook-laden, close-harmony country sound of the west coast, Country Lips has been called many […]

Videos

Video exclusive: The August List “Palace In The Rocks”

March 31, 2017 0

Taken from their forthcoming new album, Ramshackle Tabernacle, out on May 5th, a great video to accompany a hugely impressive slice of rock’n’roll-cum-folk from the Oxford-based husband and wife duo. There’s also a free download available […]

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I See Hawks In LA “Live And Never Learn” – Listen

July 18, 2018 0

Musically and lyrically imaginative I see Hawks in LA have recently released their latest album, of which this is the title track. They start a UK tour tomorrow night in London the tour has dates through […]

Justin Rutledge “Something Easy”

Justin Rutledge “Mary” – remembering a favourite person

Video: Justin Rutledge “Easy”

Justin Rutledge “Islands”

Interview: Canadian Justin Rutledge on revisiting and simplifying his greatest songs

Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

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Jim Lauderdale “Country Super Hits Volume 2”