Home. Beginnings. Roots. Memories. These form the common thread that weaves through Loreena McKennitt’s latest musical treasure chest, The Road Back Home. In it, she invites us to look back on her earliest days on the folk scene and lend an ear to some of her first songs – many of which have never previously been recorded...
by Tom White • 27 February 2024 • Comments Off on Album | John Bramwell – The Light Fantastic The former I Am Kloot mainman’s second solo album is an unexpected departure from the sound which has made his name, and no less enjoyable for it. “I’ve not got much to say but I thought I’d say it anyway,” Bramwell sings to open ‘It’s Just...
In a recording studio in Durham, NC just one month shy of losing their father, Aylnda Segarra – the songwriter behind the monicker of Hurray for the Riff Raff – committed to tape the most personal album they’d made to date. Segarra is helped along the way by a host of friends including Conor Oberst and S.G....
Grandaddy main man Jason Lytle has always had a country heart, notwithstanding the skateboarding and DIY punk origins of his band’s taped-together indie rock. Their sixth album is the one on which Lytle gives in to pedal steel and the inspiration of roaming across Nevada listening to ‘The Tennessee Waltz’. That’s not to say Blu Wav (where bluegrass meets...
by Ian Parker • 2 February 2024 • Comments Off on Album | The Miserable Rich – Overcome Tough times can overcome you, and they can be overcome. Every story is different, but the chances of finding a way through are much stronger with the love and support of family and friends. And that was the backdrop for the reforming of...
In the four years since Itasca’s Spring the world has changed completely, so there may be no antecedents for Imitation of War. It is an electric album, but one with a delicacy unlike anything else heard this year. It exists out of time even as it has a sense of places and pathways dating back 50 years or more. Swirling...
In their first album since the acclaimed Enter the Kingdom in 2017, Michigan’s alternative folk trio Frontier Ruckus – comprised of singer-songwriter-guitarist Matthew Milia, banjo player David Jones, and multi-instrumentalist Zachary Nichols – return in full force with On the Northline. According to frontman Milia, “The Northline was inspired partly by the North Country of upstate New...
In the four years since Itasca’s Spring the world has changed completely, so there may be no antecedents for Imitation of War. It is an electric album, but one with a delicacy unlike anything else heard this year. It exists out of time even as it has a sense of places and pathways dating back 50 years or more. Swirling...
by Ian Parker • 2 February 2024 • Comments Off on Album | The Miserable Rich – Overcome Tough times can overcome you, and they can be overcome. Every story is different, but the chances of finding a way through are much stronger with the love and support of family and friends. And that was the backdrop for the reforming of...
Since rising from the ashes of previous band Stillhouse a quarter of a century ago, Chatham County Line have been presenting their modern take on the bluegrass tradition to a devoted fan base across the world. Hiyo is their 11th studio album and sees the back expanding their horizons and fleshing out their sound with synthesisers, drum...
In what has become a November tradition, Guru Singh – the Fretboard Journal‘s favorite guitar-loving yogi and spiritual...
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