“I keep coming back to Glasgow cos I LOVE it here!” — Yola Carter Glasgow, Scotland, has been in its sister city Edinburgh’s shadow for far too long. While the latter city is quite rightly famous for its Royal Mile, Fringe […]
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Nathan Bell is a songwriter’s songwriter and at 57, the troubadour’s voice bleeds experience. He made his bones sharing bills with legends like Townes Van Zandt, Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal and Norman Blake. The son of a poet and professor, […]
Nathan Bell’s last album, Blood like a river, absolutely knocked me out. The writing and performance was as pitch-perfect as I’ve heard in many years. I searched out his earlier recordings, including his self-maligned Bell & Shore release El Ranko […]
The noise in the media about SXSW is always about the official showcases and events. The problem with these, for the street-level music lover, is the brevity of the sets and the cost of getting in. Personally, I don’t have […]
I hate ranking albums against each other. Each year, I generally list my favorite releases for the year in no particular order — just a group of recordings that moved me deeply, both as a listener and an amateur songwriter […]
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