Michael Gallagher is the Mining Co. and the music he creates has a timeless, lived in quality. With drums counting the way in and a pedal steel ringing out ‘Country Heart’ establishes a mournful, melancholy opening gambit. This is music…
Two years on from Little Giant, Dorset-based Roo Panes returns with his second full-length album Paperweights. Where Roo described his debut as being about “encouragement, about small revelations of great significance”, he says the themes of the new record are…
Fans of Stealing Sheep and others may be familiar with this chap from a handful of support slots around the UK, but for the uninitiated, allow us to introduce southern California’s Gonzalla. Actually a chap named Cody, Gonzalla grew up…
What do you do if you have, as Joe Innes puts it, “written a metric eff tonne of songs” that need turning into an album? You launch a crowd-funding campaign to get it off the ground. That’s exactly what Joe…
Those of you who followed the FFS Advent Calendar will remember Mairearad Green’s track ‘Blessing On Tanera‘ as one of the many treats included, and now the release of her debut album Summer Isles is just about upon us. Mairearad’s…
Eric Taylor Escudero may have been born in Brazil but there is a distinct English flavour to his debut album We Were Young And It Was Morning, on which he plays an array of instruments – guitar, harmonica, mandolin, concertina,…
Are you a budding writer and keen music fan? FFS is looking for eager folks to join our team of writers. Whether you fancy writing album reviews, live reviews, or breaking that cardinal rule and meeting your heroes as part…
Having met in 2013 when recording a Lead Belly cover, Dawn Landes and Piers Faccini quickly bonded and began work writing and recording together. The fruits of those labours can be heard on their new EP Desert Songs, and to…
Did you hear the one about the three songwriters who walked into a bar? Well, a cafe, actually. Those three songwriters were Emily Barker, Amber Rubarth and Amy Speace, and within two hours of meeting in East Nashville, they had…
Canadian country singer Lindi Ortega released her seventh studio album, Faded Gloryville, in September last year. Working with co-producers John Paul White (ex-Civil Wars) and Ben Tanner of Alabama Shakes, Ortega introduced something of a Muscle Shoals feel to the…