by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #260 Suburban Dirts – Any Other Morning
Herts six-piece Suburban Dirts are releasing their second album A Tiny Little Island In The Big Bad Sea today, another volume to explore their love of records by the likes of The Band, Ryan Adams and Bob Dylan. To record…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Exclusive | Killing Fields of Ontario – God or Country (Acoustic)
Killing Fields of Ontario have just released their debut album How The World Ends to no shortage of acclaim. A folkier take on Titus Andronica, the London group mix sweeping soundscapes with forceful lyrics which, at times, might just persuade…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #254 Neil Young – Old Man (Live at Massey Hall)
Way back in 1970, a 24-year-old Neil Young poured the fruits of his early successes into buying what he called the Broken Arrow Ranch in Northern California. The considerable tract of land came complete with a lake, the barn where…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #250 Port Orchards – All Along
Songs of Mercy for Hungry Hikers by Port Orchards From Portland, Maine comes Port Orchards, the project of Peter Gill, who has just released his latest record Songs of Mercy for Hungry Hikers. It’s one of those fine records you…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #248 Grand Old Grizzly – The Sundowners
Learn how to get your music heard at ReverbNation.com Country music is not what it was. The glitz and the glamour that will surround tonight’s Country Music Awards in Nashville bears little relation to the ‘white man’s blues’ of old,…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #243 Davy & Amelia – Norah June
Husband and wife duo Davy & Amelia are expecting a baby. A baby girl. And they’re planning to call her Norah June. Before she’s even born, she’s got a song and an EP named after, but really what she has…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #242 We/Or/Me – Lights Inside Us
The Walking Hour by We/Or/Me We/Or/Me is the recording name of Bahhaj Taherzadeh, a chap with roots in Ireland but a home in Chicago, and he has just put out his album The Walking Hour. It opens with the rather…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #237 Kathleen Grace – No Place To Fall
Los Angeles-based jazz/country artist Kathleen Grace has littered her new album with covers of everyone from Duke Ellington to Tom Waits to the Meat Puppets amid the originals. One guaranteed way of catching our ears is to tackle a Townes…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #222 Wilder Maker – Float Us Through The Barroom
From deep inside the mind of songwriter and arranger Gabe Birnbaum come the twisted sounds which make up Wilder Maker’s second full length release Year of Endless Light. This is Americana as freeform jazz, a blending of styles that blurs…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | Anna Calvi – One Breath
There may only be two of them to date, but it is already clear that when you drop the needle on an Anna Calvi record, you enter a world quite unlike any other. Her world is one of cinematic flair,…