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Category Archives: folk
Let’s Be Friends – Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Striping music back to its very essence is something that sounds easy but is rarely done well. The Civil Wars did it, though they never sounded like they were having a lot of fun doing so, The Black Feathers and … Continue reading
Posted in folk, indie-folk, post-folk, Uncategorized
Tagged black feathers (the), flagship romance, thunderbolt and lightfoot
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Bleed 432 – Roddan (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Some things just remain part of modern history. The sleek lines of a Volkswagen Beetle, the iconic shape of a Coca-Cola bottle, the fit of the blue jean, the sound of the classic singer-songwriter. And that is exactly where Roddan … Continue reading
Posted in americana, blues, country, folk, folk rock, Uncategorized
Tagged seattle (us), roddan
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Stronger in Numbers – Chris Tye (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Playing a note on a guitar or singing a lyrical line is a fairly straightforward job. These days it seems as if you could blindly throw a stone and not fail to hit some over-entitled, gap-year troubadour treating us to … Continue reading
Posted in acoustica, alt-folk, folk, Uncategorized
Tagged birmingham (uk), chris tye
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Oliver – Grace Freeman (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
It is a common misconception that making music which falls into brackets such as chilled, ambient and understated is about taking a song and stripping back to leave space. Actually it is about using the right few musical statements, the … Continue reading
Posted in alt-pop, classical, folk, neo-classical, pop, Uncategorized
Tagged grace freeman, san clemente (us)
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Brilliant Light – Danny and The Champions of The World (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Danny and his Champ’ chaps have always been hard to pin down generically. Americana is always a label which raises its head and indeed they are, to a degree but not in the way that we normally associate with the … Continue reading
Posted in alt-country, americana, blues, british-americana, country, country-pop, folk, soul, Uncategorized
Tagged danny and the champions of the world, london (uk)
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Weeding Out The Wicked – The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Last time I dipped my toe into the crazy waters of The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show it was to experience their clattering cider-punk-country-hoedown Tightropin’ a song which gave me the opportunity to roll out all those literary juxtapositions and … Continue reading
Posted in alt-country, alt-folk, bluegrass, country, folk, folk rock, folk-punk, punk, Uncategorized
Tagged two man travelling medicine show
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We Humans – Craig Johnstone (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
First impressions are always interesting events and so it is with the first 30 seconds of Key of D, the opening salvo of We Humans. If I had been led to assume that this was just another collection of alt-country … Continue reading
Posted in alt-country, alt-folk, country, folk, Uncategorized
Tagged craig johnstone
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New Music of the Day – CXC: Hard Bargain – Chris Murphy
Folk music, roots music, world music, Americana…all terms which only go a very small way to describing what Chris Murphy does, for in many ways they are terms far too loaded down with implication to do the job efficiently. This … Continue reading
Posted in americana, folk, Uncategorized, world
Tagged chris murphy, los angeles (us)
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