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.
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.
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.
Cynefin – Shimli: Album Review
A personal dispatch and a musical petition to maintain a language, culture and way of life. Cynefin transcends understanding of the language, through the beauty of its construction.
Notify – Worlds Collide: Album Review
Worlds Collide by Notify. Orchestras and a jazz tinged folk tradition emerge triumphant, after a bit of a wait.
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart – Looking For The Thread: Album Review
Carpenter, Fowlis & Polwart. Astonishing, astounding, amazing. All of that. More.
Sam Amidon – Salt River: Album Review
A sometimes perversely evasive listen, Amidon remains in charge of his muse, capturing the extremes of American Music of the last 200 years.
Doug Kershaw – Mama Kershaw’s Boy/Alive & Pickin’/Ragin’ Cajun/Flip, Flop & Fly: Album Review
Re-release of the first 4 releases from fiddle man Doug Kershaw, all together across 2 discs.
Jess Silk – Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham: Live Review
Acoustic guitar toting singer songwriter and prolific social media queen, Jess Silk is at the Kitchen Garden Cafe.
Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions – Cold Blows The Rain: Album Review
Masterfully bleak songs of winter from Bridget Hayden, delivered with a feel of disinterment rather than revival.
The Sharon Shannon Big Band – A Tribute To Shane: Live Review
Sharon Shannon and her Big Band pay tribute to Shane in Brum.