We’ve mentioned before that, of course, we love all the Tracks that get featured on a more or less daily basis – but love is not a constant. There are gradations, some is the love of just a day, some is the love that grows slow, and some is the love that is instantaneous and forever. Meet Three Queens in Mourning and fall in love forever.
Having come together in 2018 as a one-off tour band to support the launch of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billie’s book of lyrics ‘Songs of Love and Horror’, Alasdair Roberts, Alex Nilsen and Jill O’Sullivan were corralled into the studio to record an album of those same songs – with additional new songs by Will Oldham himself. Today’s song gathers together the ley lines running through this band to forge a crisply hypnotic masterpiece of drone-folk, with sky soaring vocals and earth ploughing harmonies and the throbbing power of wonderment. It’s good.
Well, this is it. We're putting this feature to bed for another year. Maybe, just maybe, if you'll be good then we'll have another go in 2021. Quality Christmas songs being available being the real requisite for a repeat. The astute amongst the readership will have noticed that today is…
Ten contemplative songs from the much-travelled Brooklyn singer-songwriter WC Beck is an itinerant singer/songwriter originally from Kansas who calls Brooklyn, NY home after long stints in Portland and Paris. While living in Portland, Beck made a name for himself as a multi-instrumentalist in several bands and as a session musician.…
‘First EP’ is, um..., the first EP from Portland Brothers. However, this is not their first time making music together as band members Steven Adams and Timothy Victor are alumni of the The Broken Family Band which formed in 2001. Their meeting back then at The Portland Arms has surely…
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?