Samantha Crain

Samantha Crain “Pick Apart” – grabbing life by the lapels

September 9, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Mindfulness, that’s a word that’s quite in vogue these days. Living in the moment. Or, instead, you could live and relive every moment of your life, endlessly. Samantha Crain makes something of that suggestion on her […]

A Night to Remember: Lord Huron & Samantha Crain, Crossing Border Festival, The Hague – November 13th, 2015

June 1, 2021 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

Crossing Border Festival is a cultural institution in both The Hague and The Netherlands itself. This multicultural festival has been going on since 1993 and has covered everything from any form of modern music to literature, […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 13

April 7, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0

So winter returned with a vengeance this week. Flippin’ snow in April ffs! Not much, in fact more a sleety impersonation of snow as done by a pretty poor impressionist, perhaps the Harry Hill of the […]

Samantha Crain “An Echo” – Listen

September 28, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Some songs are just magic – and today’s song is one of those: we don’t believe that you’ll ever forget hearing ‘An Echo‘, which is an emotional tidal-wave taken from Samantha Crain’s new album ‘A Small […]

Samantha Crain “A Small Death” (Real Kind Records, 2020)

July 30, 2020 Keith Hargreaves 0

An interesting, compelling and exciting album this; written by Samantha Crain upon recovering the use of her hands after a prolonged period following three serious car accidents in three months the last of which left her […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers