Tracks
Just Because…
Where to start? What’s the most bizarre part of yesterday’s speech? The suggestion that what we need after 13 years of the current party is a wind of change – and change of that kind can […]
Tom Russell
Live Reviews
Live Review: Tom Russell, The 100 Club London – 29th June 2023
And so once more to the 100 Club, the habitual stopover of Tom Russell in London for an evening of..well, who really knows what? Unlike many musicians, Tom Russell didn’t spend the pandemic recording new albums, […]
Previews
Live Preview: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 30th June – 2nd July 2023
If you love country and Americana, then at Maverick you’ll feel like your music has come home. These days we are blessed with a number of great festivals but there is something particularly special about the […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Barrence Whitfield with Tom Russell “Cowboy Mambo”
Collaborations can be a tricky musical venture – the artists need to complement each other and be distinctive enough not to meld into one. Barrence Whitfield is a Boston-based blues and r’n’b singer (born Barry White […]
Album Reviews
The Wardens “Sold Out At The Ironwood”
A modern addition to western music in the spirit of Ian Tyson and Tom Russell How many people can remember the western in country and western music? It was the early 20th Century music business that […]