Alela Diane’s sixth studio album was born in a storm – more than one, in fact. There was the thunderstorm in Mexico, which knocked out the power as Diane wrote the opening track ‘Paloma’. “In the black of night/I wouldn’t be taken aback/If the sun gave up and never brought the day,” she wrote as the bolts...
On the ‘His Song Is Sung’, the opening track of Lambchop’s new album The Bible, the listener is eased in with plaintive piano and orchestration before Kurt Wagner’s voice cracks through warmly – ‘In the spring the view was better/And I smelled the age on your right hand”. It’s a beautiful opening and halfway through the vocoder...
by Duncan Martin • 2 October 2022 • Comments Off on Session | Rev Simpkins – Gathering Grounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AkVJ3Nxq50 Another visit to the salt marshes of Essex today with a second session track from Rev Simpkins, also taken from his album Saltings. Reverend (Matt) Simpkin’s parish is known for its ancient springs that mingle on the ‘Gathering Grounds’. These springs supplied...
Flo PerlinIt’s no secret that it’s been a hard two years for the music industry. Cambridge Folk Festival organiser Rebecca Stewart acknowledges that tough context in the opening lines of the programme for this year’s Festival, the first since 2019. It’s against that backdrop that Team FFS enter the arena with disbelief and a rising sense of...
by Jonathan Frahm • 7 August 2022 • Comments Off on Video | James and the Shame – Believe Me Best known for his work as a YouTube “internetainer”, Los Angeles artist Rhett McLaughlin is breaking from his trademark comedy to hone-in on another passion—country music—as James and the Shame. His debut single, ‘Believe Me’, takes a jab at political punditry...
One of Nashville’s most promising new implants, Chloe Kimes, released her self-titled LP this summer and it reliably swings between worlds. Originally from Ludington, Michigan, the singer-songwriter is as well-rounded as her pitstop portfolio; she sells her narrative lyricism with the vocal resonance of a rock chameleon reminiscent of Linda Ronstadt. An awesome interpreter of song, Kimes’...
Being named after the senator that help bring down Richard Nixon in the year he was born, Samuel Ervin Beam has had a tough legacy, choosing to ignore it entirely by recording as Iron & Wine. Beam has released LORI, a collection of four songs by Lori McKenna whose recordings helped him through the darkest days of the pandemic....
It’s been a half-decade since Mason dropped their debut album, Midnight Road. They electrified Arizona crowds with their smoky blues and they’re ready to do it again with a psychedelic lick of paint with My Kind of Trouble. Their second LP packs a heartier punch, recorded with a danceable, livewire jive in mind. They’re still bringing all...
by Bob Fish • 12 September 2022 • Comments Off on EP | Susie Merry – Body in Time There are points in life where things don’t seem to match up, for example the photo, Susie Merry on the cover of Body in Time and the lyrics to the album, where this seemingly sweet thing takes a harsh look at life and delivers...
The Brother Brothers have grown into a notable force on the roots circuit, regaled for reflective songwriting and gorgeous harmonies that have drawn comparison to the best of ’em. As the Milk Carton Kids would jest about the dubious identifiability of Simon & Garfunkel in their rise through the ranks, Adam and David Moss wouldn’t be remiss...
The description of Pentangle as a British folk band has always been as misleading as it is inaccurate. Spanning...
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