Aside from Suzy Bogguss, Tift Merritt must be the most personable musician currently performing That is no slight to others such as Rosanne Cash, Gretchen Peters, Mary-Chapin Carpenter and more who are all undoubtedly warm and welcoming, but they don’t […]
Fifteen years or so ago I had tickets to see Kelly Willis. I’d fallen in love with her What I Deserve album and was really looking forward to seeing her, only for the gig to be cancelled. As it turned […]
This album has been out a couple of months. It has already been reviewed here in ND although I’d say it’s a review that can best be characterised as damning with faint praise. I think it’s a record that deserves […]
The Green Note, Camden, London. A couple of years ago I wrote of the massive impact Hannah Aldridge made on me when I saw her supporting Holly Williams. Now I’ve had the huge pleasure of seeing and hearing a (comparatively) […]
We have a slightly unusual mix here. Dean is a Scottish singer/songwriter who has in recent years recorded his songs, largely about Scotland and life there, in Nashville. This album is the latest example, featuring Suzy Bogguss, Will Kimbrough and […]
This gig was a double first for me. I went into St Giles in the Fields church in central London for the first time ever, despite having passed by it innumerable times, and been impressed with its Palladian style, in […]
Great gigs live in popular memory because sometimes a live recording is released. On other occasions a couple of journalists may concur in their write-ups and so the event passes into history as a most notable occasion; fans who weren’t […]
I didn’t expect to be at this gig. I live in London and a few weeks ago I was asked if I wanted to see CSN at the Royal Albert Hall. I turned it down, because I had no expectations […]
I’m really pleased to see Kathleen’s LP Voyageur featuring in plenty of people’s Top 10s for 2012. It’s my joint number 1 with The Mastersons to save anyone looking. She’s just played two nights in London at Bush Hall in […]
Last night (Friday May 24th) at Chat’s Palace in Hackney, East London Big Steve and Stephanie Arlene played to a small but very appreciative audience. They were actually the support to bluegrass band Foghorn Leghorn and with all due respect […]
