by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | Peggy Seeger – First Farewell
Her voice is clarity personified. She still sounds playful but laced in wisdom. Peggy Seeger might be American by birth, but has lived in Britain for over half her life. At the age of 85, with 68 years of recording…
by Conor Lochrie • • Comments Off on Album | Michael Feuerstack – Harmonize the Moon
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. In the spring of last year, Michael Feuerstack was preparing to enter the studio to make an upbeat and fulsome record but COVID-19 – as it did for us all – changed his…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Sara Watkins – Under the Pepper Tree
A cold-blooded writer would call Sara Watkins’ Under the Pepper Tree one of the sappiest records ever made. However, for those of us who still appreciate a classic melody, along with a tune that has withstood the march of time, this set of music…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | South – From Here On In
One of the few things about South that you could pin down was their name. Three London lads proudly declared their roots at a time when the north dominated the British scene – and there was an element of defiance…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Israel Nash – Topaz
Israel Nash is a bit of a throwback to earlier times, and his new album Topaz is an example of virtually everything that is good about music, which is even more remarkable since the bulk of this album is just him recorded…
by Zuzanna Zareba • • Comments Off on EP | Clara Mann – Consolations
This collection of four songs brought by newcomer, Bristol-based singer-songwriter sounds timeless. Clara Mann is a classically-trained musician and she grew up in a small village in the south of France with classical music and choral pieces around her. As…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Forest Sun & David Luning – Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
Forest Sun is the product of his parents, folk-singing, earth-loving hippies from upstate New York. As the story goes, his dad literally built the floor that Dylan stood on at Woodstock’s Bearsville Studios. Beyond that, though, Sun has given himself…
by Zuzanna Zareba • • Comments Off on Album | Indigo Sparke – Echo
“What is the distance between love and fear, the distance between words and silence, the space between the body and mind and the soul, the landscapes between lovers. I don’t know. It’s a pendulum. I’m trying to find a gentle…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Ervin Stellar – S.O.S.
With his upcoming EP, Nothing to Prove, Ervin Stellar experienced the satisfaction of self-production, and it shows. Dutifully delivered, each track on the album—whether it’s one of its three originals or two covers—is developed with a sincere, fully-rounded intent. It’s…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Sam Pace and the Gilded Grit – Bubala
Sam Pace and the Gilded Grit are generally known for the electric, eclectic blues. Their new single, ‘Bubala’, strips things back into an acoustic affair. The stripped-back approach doesn’t ground Pace in mediocrity, though; an artist of his prowess is…