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…
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…
Thematically, D.L. Rossi’s Lonesome Kind is what it says it is on the tin. It’s certainly lonesome, but Rossi’s emotion is softly, sometimes ironically veiled beneath the tasty veneer of grooving, soulful music. A mix of Motown and Americana (it…
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…
James Michael Rodgers is from Saltcoats – a seaside town on the west coast of Scotland. Growing up in a working-class family, in a place where more than half the population doesn’t pursue further studies after high school, he remembers…
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…