Loudon Wainwright III

Essentials: The Top 10 Digital Live Albums in 2025

December 18, 2025 Dean Nardi 1

A quirky and amusing take in our occasional Essentials series looks at the best live digital-only releases in 2025 This exciting and fun way of listening to live music recordings is a new wrinkle on the […]

Live Review: Transatlantic Sessions 2025, Royal Festival Hall, London, Sunday 9th February 2025

February 27, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1

Over the last thirty years, growing out of BBC sessions and star spots at Celtic Connections, Transatlantic Sessions have become – to borrow from Chesterton – The Flying Folk Club. And not just as a travelling […]

Loudon Wainwright III “Loudon Live In London”

February 13, 2025 Paul Kerr 0

A great live capture of a Troubadour on top of his game. Over the course of a 50 year plus career, with around 30 albums under his belt, Loudon Wainwright III has surely earned the right […]

Track Premiere: Loudon Wainwright III “Primrose Hill”

December 13, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Earlier this year the legendary Loudon Wainwright III (whom we’re sure requires no introduction) played a three-night residency at Nell’s Jazz and Blues in London. The shows were recorded and twenty-one of the songs are used […]

Loudon lets loose “Live In London” to compliment Transatlantic dates

November 27, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Winner of imaginative album title competition strikes again. Loudon Wainwright III will release his fourth live album simply titled “Live in London” on the 31st of January to coincide with the beginning of his guest appearances […]

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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 […]

Tracks

Jim Clements “Not a Lot of Blood” – Listen

September 18, 2018 0

Every five years or so, Jim Clements emerges to drop a collection of literate, witty, surreal, gut-wrenching songs, before disappearing again into the shadows. A songwriter’s songwriter in the tradition of Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave, his songs have earned him […]

Album Reviews

Briscoe “West Of It All”

September 22, 2023 2

Excellent debut album from Texan duo stuffed full of songs with catchy melodies and strong harmonies. Hailing from Texas, Briscoe are made up of Truett Heintzelman and Philip Lupton who first met as fourteen-year-olds at a […]

Album Reviews

Li’l Andy “All The Love Songs Lied To Us” (Sainte Cécile Records, 2019)

October 25, 2019 0

The ghost of Leonard Cohen looms large over the new album by Montreal’s Li’l Andy – in fact, the music for the title track, ‘All The Love Songs Lied To Us’, is based on Cohen’s 1984 […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Digital Live Albums in 2025

Live Review: Transatlantic Sessions 2025, Royal Festival Hall, London, Sunday 9th February 2025

Loudon Wainwright III “Loudon Live In London”

Track Premiere: Loudon Wainwright III “Primrose Hill”

Loudon lets loose “Live In London” to compliment Transatlantic dates

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”