As I write this week’s column, I can feel the excitement beginning to well up inside. I’m going to a gig tonight. It often seems incredible to me that after 45 years of regular gig attendance, […]
Last week saw me undertaking a tour of the Somme battlefield. It’s always a humbling and often upsetting trip but I get a good deal of satisfaction taking people round these sites and helping them understand […]
Possibly more rocky, psych-folk than americana, The Nude Party’s third album sounds as if it was recorded in a time gone by. There’s a band called Big Daddy whose conceit is that they were abducted by […]
The recent single ‘Ride On’ from The Nude Party comes with a striking Western-themed video that is an absolute delight to watch. It’s brilliantly shot and edited, and the quality of footage gives it the feel […]
Red Rooster has announced the first wave of artists performing at its eighth festival of Americana in 2023. Among the names announced is the Grammy award-winning blues artist Fantastic Negrito who had a new album ‘White […]
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