I spend a lot of my time thinking about how traditional music and traditional culture is still relevant in our lives. I listen to a lot of bands that are putting new spins on old traditions, and I work as […]
I spend a lot of my time thinking about how traditional music and traditional culture is still relevant in our lives. I listen to a lot of bands that are putting new spins on old traditions, and I work as […]
It’s the end of the year, the time when we start looking for the Top Ten in every category imaginable. But when it came to the CD’s we received and reviewed and featured on our broadcasts, ten just wasn’t […]
South African singer makes singing Americana sound effortless This is Award winning singer-songwriter Laurie Levine’s third album but the first to be released outside her native South Africa. As I know next to nothing about Laurie’s background I will take […]
Just as English Folk catches up with her Angie takes another leap forward Although she still looks like a fresh faced teenager Angie Palmer has been in and around the British Folk scene for quite a few years now, starting […]
The 11 songs that make up the new album by Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale are nothing different from the straight-forward country songs they’ve been turning out for years. There’s a rocker or two, a ballad or two, a Cajun […]
Welcome to our Yuletide with pride Christmas Medicine Show, broadcast on Lochbroom FM, 2Lochs Radio, ABC Radio in The Highlands, across Glasgow on Sunny Govan Radio & Celtic Music Radio, and to the UK Country Music fraternity on UKCountryRadio.com. Festive […]
Monster wave of obscure ‘60s surf gems It’s no accident that this deluxe 4-CD set uses the word “Nuggets” in its title; this is an apt reference to Lenny Kaye’s landmark 1972 compilation of psychedelic and garage rock. An even […]
I’ve got a little bit of blogger list-envy going on today, since I threw together my favorite album titles of the year a couple weeks ago, passed them onto Kim for her thingamajig, and now that post is as worn […]
The best way to describe the sound of the new album from Memphis guitar troubadour Jake Lear is to call it “electric folk blues.” The self-produced album of eight new songs and two covers has a raw, wide open, rough […]
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