When my Americana UK colleague Paul Kerr posted on the dreaded socials about the 40th Anniversary edition of ‘The Days of Wine and Roses’ late in 2023, I needed no persuading to invest in my third copy of the album with its lovely book and intriguing extras. The hope...
The fact that I love the band Over The Rhine will hardly be news. I have to limit the number of times I write about them over at Americana UK to avoid accusations from my colleagues of being their UK PR. It’s a surprise to find that it’s a while since I did a piece on...
When Bruce Brodeen packed up Pop Geek Heaven and retired to the coast, we lost the last great link with the golden Power Pop years of the early 80s. But now we can relive just a sliver of that era with one of the great MIA albums from the period. In the after math of...
Or... How to make an 11 out of 10 album. The Delusional Vanity Project (DVP) live experience is one absolutely made for the Friday night pub. and Matt Owens knows his strengths, and celebrates them on my single of 2023, ‘One For The Grapes’. I’ve praised this...
Reverberations is an album created by musician Nevaris (percussion/keyboards) and bassist/producer Bill Laswell, with a lineup that includes DJ Logic, guitarists Will Bernard and Matt Dickey, and Peter Apfelbaum on horns. Sitting in a similar part of the musical...
With the passing of Sakamoto and Takahashi recently, and new work from a variety of established artists I’ve been listening to a lot of electronica recently. The question has to be, is there anywhere left to go with this music? The answer is the new album from The Big...
The Big Boss – Beats On My Mind The second single from upcoming album Inner Space. I wasn’t sure how Martin was going to top the last album In Transit, but he has. The twitchy nervous lead line and beat blend with the vocal line which issues its order of “stay in...
Canadian Chris Coole was a new name to me, although he’s had a career that spanned some 30 odd years. Having been a busker, teacher, and played with bands like Lonesome Ace Stringband who appeared at Celtic Connections recently he is steeped in old time, bluegrass and...
The Strange Blue Dreams come from a parallel universe where music flash froze sometime between 1962 and 1965, and the Beatles never happened. They say: “The cinematic arrangements of these 5 Scotsmen combine Doo Wop, Bollywood and Spaghetti Western themes with Joe...
When I heard her single ‘Love & Distance’ recently I was looking forward to the rest of the album. And I’m not disappointed. A 12 song set so not overlong as so many albums are now. Kicking off with the rocky title song, this turns out to be an album of many...
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