Nick Lowe

Nick Lowe at Ealing Blues Festival July 2019

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Nick Lowe

December 17, 2025 David Jarman 0

I must admit to approaching this assignment with some trepidation, it feeling just a touch disloyal to be dissing even one album by a favourite artist, especially having decided I’d pick my all-time favourite, Nick Lowe. […]

Interview: Ian Gomm on Brinsley Schwarz, Nashville, Jeb Loy Nichols and football records

December 11, 2025 Martin Johnson 0

The Brinsley’s “Silver Pistol” was the album that perfected their Band obsession and, at the same time, showed that there was a lot more to them than being simple wannabes. Coincidentally, it was the first time […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Dave Edmunds

September 24, 2025 Martin Johnson 4

It is difficult to underestimate the influence that Dave Edmunds has had as a guitar virtuoso, producer and recording artist on roots-based artists in the UK, Europe and America, and while he has had periods of […]

More People Should Really Know About: Andy Fairweather Low

May 13, 2025 Martin Johnson 0

This may appear to be a contradiction because Andy Fairweather Low has managed to have a music career that lasted nearly 60 years, and in different ways at different times, he has enjoyed significant success. However, […]

The Song Remains: Austin de Lone (1946-2025)

January 13, 2025 Martin Johnson 3

An originator of pub rock and Mill Valley music legend. While it may not have made headlines in the mainstream media, the passing of Austin de Lone on January 6th saw an outbreak of genuine sadness […]

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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

Union Duke “Left Behind” – Listen

January 22, 2020 0

The awesome Union Duke return with a new single, with an EP to follow on soon. It’s a banjo rich close-harmonied gem of that indy-folk-rock sub-genre of Americana – uplifting, memorable, melodic, kick-drumming. It’s perfect for […]

Album Reviews

Keegan McInroe “Dusty Passports and Empty Beds”

June 3, 2024 0

Birthed during a period of isolation, his new album displays a deft touch for sensitive songwriting. ‘Dusty Passports and Empty Beds’ came about as a result of the pandemic’s grip. When the lockdown was mandated in […]

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Woody Platt: “Toe The Line” – family, and all that

September 12, 2024 0

Today’s slice of Bluegrass comes from Woody Platt who left teh Steep Canyon Rangers in 2022, and has now got an album of his own – ‘Far Away With You‘ – on the way with an […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Nick Lowe

Interview: Ian Gomm on Brinsley Schwarz, Nashville, Jeb Loy Nichols and football records

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Dave Edmunds

More People Should Really Know About: Andy Fairweather Low

The Song Remains: Austin de Lone (1946-2025)

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”