In honour of Bob Dylan’s 80th Birthday, Danny Neill presents the first in a series of deep dives into the music of Bob Dylan accompanied by an extensive playlist featuring over 5 hours of music. We kick off with Vol 1 – Essential Bob.
Journey Through The Roke is a rather fetching gorgeous record. Flitting from Americana, jazz, and blues, with nods to funk, country, and tradition, the album expertly demonstrates Honey and the Bear’s skill and confidence. It is a road I’ll happily wander along again.
Bellowhead announce the release of their new album ‘Reassembled’, the recording from their online broadcast concert in December 2020. Listen to them performing New York Girls.
Binga, the latest offering from guitarist and singer Samba Touré is a compelling, intriguing and wonderfully refreshing album. While it reflects on some of the harsh realities of life it’s also driven by a pride for a nation’s history.
Land of Heroes is Ray Cooper’s fourth solo album. An engaging listen from the outset that beckons you back for repeated listens. He really has excelled here.
Our Song of the Day is New Light, the latest single from Dublin-based group Sun Collective. It contains some beautiful instrumental flourishes, notably from musicians Lina Andonovska and Nick Roth that add to Gilmore’s deep reflective offering.
Listen to “Tom’, the new single from Damien Jurado taken from his forthcoming new album “The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania”, one on which he offers up his own Twilight Zone.
A stylistically eclectic and beguiling Americana album that speaks of hope, longing connection and wonder. Seen through Vane’s lens, ‘nowhere’ may be both daunting and inviting, but it is most assuredly lovely. Take that ride.
Sam Brookes pays tribute to John Martyn as he premieres his new single ‘You Can Discover’, a “lesser-known gem” on John’s 1973 album ‘Sundays Child’, a song Brookes immediately fell in love with and does great justice here.
Eli West’s A Tapered Point of Stone is a fresh, subtle and captivating collection. With a terrific acoustic backing band and a number of special guests, this is an album that grows on the listener with repeated spins.
Our Song of the Day is “How Did We Get Here”. It comes from Allysen Callery who is joined by friend & producer Myles Baer who she has worked with since her early days.
Laura Veirs releases an acoustic and electric version of The Panther – Written in 1902, the Rainer Maria Rilke poem describes a captured panther on exhibit at the Ménagerie of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
