Tom Paxton

Tom Paxton and John McCutcheon “Together Again”

January 6, 2026 FredArnold 0

Two folk music icons double up on their debut ‘Together’ with a formidable follow-up. And once again, your humble reviewer has the great pleasure of reviewing an album by an artist, or artists in this case, […]

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Interview: Tim O’Brien and Jan Fabricius on picking paper flowers

July 15, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Writing songs with Tom Paxton was like going fishing with a friend. Paper flowers generally symbolise enduring love, remembrance, and creativity. Unlike fresh flowers, they don’t fade or die, memorialising a love that lasts or a […]

Folk Roundup – Gavin Fairhall Lever, Filkins Drift, Trip, Danu, Quinie, C. Daniel Boling & Tom Paxton

June 25, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

This is an epic edition of Folk Roundup, so many great albums, we’re not sure yet who is going to pull themselves to the top of the heap as album of the month. And such variety […]

Bluegrass Briefs – Magnolia Street String Band, Thunder and Rain, The Grascals

October 8, 2024 Tim Martin 0

Bluegrass can often feel like it is speaking to its existing audience rather than reaching out to new people. There are plenty of artists who seem to be looking to bury the Bluegrass elements of their […]

Track Premiere: Laurie Lewis “Central Square”

August 29, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Laurie Lewis has been having quite the busy year – her own album ‘TREES‘ appeared earlier this year and in July she was announced as a recipient of an International Bluegrass Music Association Distinguished Achievement Award, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

Album Reviews

Tom West “I’m Livin’!”

June 15, 2021 0

New age singer-songwriter with a set of pleasant enough songs which ultimately fail to catch on fire Tom West is an Australian singer-songwriter who has apparently had a bit of a buzz around him in the […]

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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on “My Favorite Place” with The Game Changers

June 25, 2024 0

Keeping traditions alive and making new ones. If you had to name one artist who best embodied what americana music is then you could do a lot worse than look to Jim Lauderdale. He is a […]

Album Reviews

Low Water Bridge Band “Back to the Valley”

November 14, 2023 0

Lively alt-country telling authentic tales from the Virginia mountains. Formed in 2020, Low Water Bridge Band hail from Clarke County, Virginia, a town about 40 miles northwest of Washington DC. However, more importantly, it is also […]

Tom Paxton and John McCutcheon “Together Again”

Interview: Tim O’Brien and Jan Fabricius on picking paper flowers

Folk Roundup – Gavin Fairhall Lever, Filkins Drift, Trip, Danu, Quinie, C. Daniel Boling & Tom Paxton

Bluegrass Briefs – Magnolia Street String Band, Thunder and Rain, The Grascals

Track Premiere: Laurie Lewis “Central Square”

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”