Things Will Change feels both familiar and refreshing. Familiar because folk, country and rock traditions are discernable throughout, and refreshing because of the exceptional song writing that melds these genres together. Reid Morrison’s voice is soft and rough, harmonised backing…
Dufflefolks and Emily and the Woods play charity gig
Attention Londoners (and near Londoners)! For Folk’s Sake favourites and winners of the Green Man unsigned band competition the Dufflefolks will be headlining a charity show in aid of VSO this Wednesday at the Tooting Tram & Social. And it’s…
Album: Okkervil River – I Am Very Far
Okkervil River’s I Am Very Far has an immediate quality that affirms the album’s title. Reverb and echo give the listener a sense that they are hearing a message that has come from either at a great distance, or that…
Interview: The return of Duane Eddy
Sometimes an idea comes from so far out of left field it takes you a while to realise just how perfect it is. Like Duane Eddy, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall-of-Famer who invented the famous ‘twang’ sound, recording an album…
O Chapman
Eighteen-year-old Londoner O. Chapman makes bluesy acoustic folk that the panel really wanted to hear… James Robinson: O. Chapman makes perfect music – there is nothing that needs to be put in or taken out. These lovely duets with their minor chord progressions,…
Live: Villagers @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire, 21/05/2011
This gig did not start well, given that the average height of the audience seemed to be about 6’2”. As someone who normally can’t stand those idiots who prefer to enjoy gigs through the screens of their cameras and iPhones,…