by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Interview | Keston Cobblers Club on being ‘Almost Home’.
The world is a much brighter place when Keston Cobblers Club are gearing up to release new music, and over the course of the past few years, the band have honed their craft of creating joyous, up-tempo folk-rock to produce…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | Ryanhood talk ‘Yearbook’, the folk duo’s first-ever independently-tracked record
Fresh off their whirlwind week at Folk Alliance, Tucson, AZ folk-duo Ryanhood was gracious enough to field my questions about their 6th studio album, entilted Yearbook. Ryan and Cameron talk about the past, present, and future of their band, as well…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Interview | Stornoway get ready to say goodbye
For Jon Ouin, one of his favourite things about being a member of Stornoway has been going out on tour. The Oxford band have been gigging since long before some of them were, strictly speaking, old enough to be in…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Interview | Patch & The Giant on the making of their debut album
Soon you can stop counting the days, because this is the week that Patch & The Giant release All That We Had, We Stole. Luke and Angie have been talking us through the making of the band’s debut album, the…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Interview | Worry Dolls bring the best of Nashville home on Go Get Gone
When Zoe Nicol and Rosie Jones jetted off to Nashville in September 2015 having only written half the album they intended to record when they got there, you might – as Rosie put it – have thought them “a bit…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Interview | No time for nostalgia: Willy Vlautin on the road to the end of the road with Richmond Fontaine
If Willy Vlautin were a nostalgic man, he might be starting to get emotional about now. If Vlautin strolled down memory lane he might prepare for Richmond Fontaine’s final ever live shows thinking about their first. But if Vlautin were…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Interview | ‘Let the backlash begin’ – The Drive-By Truckers tackle a divided America
“I just got back from the gym,” Mike Cooley says with a laugh as he answers his phone. “I’m trying to get in shape because when we go out and do this, we might have to run if they try…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Interview | We chat to Darlingside at Cambridge Folk Festival
Massachusetts 4-piece indie folk band Darlingside were the talk of Cambridge Folk Festival a couple of weekends ago. Their first day playing outside of America saw them charm the crowd in front of Stage 2 on the Saturday afternoon, before…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Interview | We meet Lucinda Williams in Berlin
After Lucinda’s performance at the Apostel Paulus Kirche in Berlin in June, we were invited backstage to a small after-show gathering. Several people had already met Lucinda, shared a short conversation and departed. There are only a few people left,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | Petie Ronstadt talks Generations band, new records, and the recording process
When it comes to adhering to the traditions that make up the innermost, most intrinsic musical values of your homeland, few on the circuit right now do it as well as Ronstadt Generations y Los Tucsonenses. Though the name may…