Freddy Trujillo plays bass for The Delines and Richmond Fontaine. He is also a singer songwriter in his own right releasing his second album Amexica in autumn last year, the follow-up to his 2003 album Hawks and Highways. Both records […]
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“He just liked to play guitar and he never hurt anyone.” It’s a line that glistens for me from “Micheline” off Sun Kil Moon’s 2014 album Benji. The stories in “Micheline” twist you up. I have found myself wondering what […]
I’m not sorry that it hurt when I took your heart apart ‘cause I liked it I remember how it felt when I fell in love with someone and they hit below the belt My. There’s the other side of […]
The Old Salts hail from Toronto and their sound is folk, with a Celtic air, an underbelly of rock and roll, dotted with blues and decorated with flourishes of bluegrass. Their 2014 self-titled album The Old Salts is an eight-track […]
John Murry – The Wrong Man @ The Harbour Bar, Bray. Video credit – David Keeling Film
Curtis Eller is a rock and roller, albeit a rock and roller with the tightest, most badass banjo playing you could pay a ticket price for. “I most definitely consider myself a rock and roll singer” he told me in […]
Willie Watson is a purveyor of old and traditional American folk songs. His debut 2014 solo album Folk Singer Vol.1 is a solid confirmation of that. The singer, songwriter, master guitar and banjo player, and former founding member of Old Crow Medicine […]
“Looks like I’ll need a road case with some baby supplies,” Ryan Bingham told me when I asked how he was going to cope embarking on a tour of Europe only months after his brand new baby is born. It’s […]
In Willy Vlautin’s 2014 novel The Free, Darla, mother of Leroy Kervin — a brain-injured soldier returned from Iraq — says, “It’s hard to let yourself have a good time when someone you love is in pain.” The line speaks volumes. Vlautin’s writing […]
“You know with The Delines I write bigger songs because I think Amy can sing anything. I don’t have the courage or ability to pull off a lot of songs she can.” That’s what Willy Vlautin had to say about […]
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