by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | Fruit Bats – Gold Past Life
If ever an album was tailor-made for a road trip (and this road trip has to have the words ‘great’ and ‘American’ in its description), it’s Fruit Bat’s latest record, Gold Past Life. Eric D. Johnson – the project’s singer/songwriter –…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | The Divine Comedy – Office Politics
This year sees the 30th anniversary of the Divine Comedy’s formation, Neil Hannon’s chamber pop ensemble with a revolving door policy on members. Twenty years on from the end of their greatest commercial successes, Office Politics is their twelfth studio…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | J.J. Cale – Stay Around
J.J. Cale should hopefully need no introduction to For Folk’s Sake readers. The legendary Oklahoman musician and songwriter, who died almost 6 years ago, has had songs covered by many artists including Johnny Cash, Beck and, most famously, Eric Clapton.…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | The Unthanks – Lines
Lines, a trilogy of song cycles from the Unthanks inspired by poetry and focusing on three female perspectives over time – World War One poets, Emily Bronte and Hull fishing worker Lillian Bilocca – is a staggering meeting of music…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Live | Josh Rouse @ The Garage
Josh Rouse proved to be the perfect antidote to a cold, wet Wednesday April evening. His delivery and vocal style is full of soul and warmth and he likes to make gentle jokes in-between songs, like when telling the audience…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | Old Crow Medicine Show – Volunteer
Old Crow Medicine Show celebrate 20 years together in 2018 and mark the occasion with Volunteer, an album recorded in the historic RCA Studio A in Nashville by Jason Isbell producer Dave Cobb. It’s fair to say that they’ve faced…