Singer/songwriter Gentry Bronson (http://www.gentrybronson.com) is almost famous in Europe. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Bronson is based in San Francisco, where more than a decade’s worth of gigging has enabled him to corral a small following […]
www.rebeccapronsky.com If you’re any sort of a country music fan, the opening bars of Viewfinder will have you drooling with pleasure. As a great big twanging guitar picks out a melody line against a cantering rhythm, Rebecca’s strong vocal […]
by Terry Roland “The rain crow calls to the setting sun The curtain falls on everyone All my love was holy art That I might live within your heart” John Stewart (Portrait credit to Jerry Blank: www.goblankart.com) On January 19, […]
Shipcote hails from Newcastle ( where else?) and has been a stlawart of the music scene in those parts for many a year, both as performer and as promoter. In recent years he has taken to songwriting, too and this […]
www.drewnelson.net This cd, available through Drew’s website I believe, is one heck of a coup for modern technology and for Rob Ellen’s Medicine Show. As recorded on Rob’s little machine (was it hanging from a coat peg?) the quality is […]
www.spikeflynn.com Australian Spike Flynn is an unusual debutant into the music business. It seems he’s been playing music and writing songs all his life but it’s only now, in his fifties, that things have come together enough for him to […]
No new music through the letterbox in the last couple of weeks – very little post altogether, thanks to the snow – so it’s been a chance to revisit some of the recent new stuff, indulge in some old […]
Making a fair stab at rivalling Johnny Cash for memorable last works, Canada’s Gerry Griffin presents here a collection of songs written over the last five years or so which are pretty much all washed through with intimations of mortality. […]
http://joecassady.com I’ve seen New York’s Joe Cassady And The West End Sound at Belladrum Festival two years running and absolutely loved ’em each time: ‘a classic rock band with a star guitarist’ is how I described them and that’s pretty […]
http://www.forestsun.com/ Coming from San Francisco’s Bay Area, it seems only right and fitting that Forest Sun’s music should be of a relaxed and sunny disposition. He generally plays gigs with just himself, his acoustic guitar and his sidekick Ingrid Serban […]
