Lorraine Nash – All That I Can Be (Deluxe) : Album Review
The name Lorraine Nash may be new but the array of well-polished styles offered is ageless, yet still contemporary.
Seuras Og
"Well, what sort of music do you like, Seuras?" Ever since that question was first aired by his mother a decade or six back he has struggled with the answer. And struggles still now. Call him a folkie, a country dude, a bluesman and he'll be happy, but don't forget the whiff of jazz, electronica and more. Not so keen on the charts, mind.
Reg Meuross – Fire & Dust, A Woody Guthrie Story: Album Review
Prodigious aural history and imaginings of Woody Guthrie, through some of Guthrie’s own songs and more written specially by Meuross.
The Move – Message From The Country (Remastered & Expanded): Album Review
Swansong from the Brummie Poppers turned Rockers, The Move, contains surprises and points to the future directions of flow.
Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver – Hinterland: Album Review
Knapp & Diver mingle heritage and history with studio magic to produce a gothic collision of some splendour.
An Evening with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart – Live Review
A special evening and a privilege to be in the same room as Fowlis, Carpenter and Polwart.
Jenn Butterworth – Her By Design: Album Review
February folds with the reveal that the folk tradition has a new giant, hiding in plain sight. Until now. Step forward Jenn Butterworth.
Annie Dressner – For The Thrill Of It: Single Review
Punchy power pop to play loud and ponder from the ever brilliant Annie Dressner.
Jim Ghedi – Wasteland : Album Review
A pitch from the apocalypse, Jim Ghedi stares deep in the void on Wasteland.
The Delines – Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom: Album Review
More well-thumbed vignettes of gothic country noir, seeped in some Southern soul sauce from The Delines.
Dean Owens – Spirit Ridge: Album Review
Dean Owens, our favourite Leither is back, this time embroidering his wares with some well heeled Italianana; spaghetti (country and) western, maybe, for an album better than that pun.
Seth Lakeman – The Granite Way: Album Review
Granite is as granite does. Lakeman the Devonian hews ever deeper into his heritage.
Gavin Fairhall Lever – Tearing Down Walls : Album Review
The Gavin Fairhall Lever trio on complex fusions of folk and jazz, Balkan and Celtic, meet to nourish those hungry for proto-prog brain food.
The Ollam – Norton’s, Birmingham: Live Review
The Ollam – with more posts than a picket fence: post rock, post funk, post trad and post grunge. File under eclectic.
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – The Purple Bird: Album Review
A veritable smorgasbord of country motifs allow Will Oldham to further project his idiosyncrasies, with deceptively conventional masterclass.
Morganway – Kill The Silence: Album Review
Rousing UK Americana/folk/prog band Morganway unlock a vivid and varied third treasure chest of power and positivity.