Paul heads to London’s 12 Bar Club for a Bucketfull of Brains showcase and is treated to great performances from Sugar Magnolia, Trent Miller and Pete Gow.
With music that ‘seeps beneath your guard until it feels like an old friend’ there’s plenty to love about Run Boy Run whose music is rooted in the traditional music of the Appalachian South.
Paul headed to London’s Borderline this week to catch an amazing line-up: The legendary Wizz Jones with Case Hardin and Jason McNiff and the Lone Malones. What a night!
This boy doesn’t so much stand on ceremony as jump up and down on him until it submits, his hybrid Blues and Country squall whipping in from various shores and uprooting whatever’s in its path.
The debut album from husband and wife duo Martin and Kerraleigh Child, AKA The August List, comes up a sure winner. Appalachia and American roots music via Dorset.
Canadian husband and wife duo Reid Jamieson’s latest album Juniper KItchen deserves a wider audience. They’re over in the UK in November so make sure you catch them!
To be following your creative instincts with such certitude at this stage of a musical career is rare and to be applauded, especially when the results are as warm and refreshing as Good-bye Lizelle.
Fieldnotes is a gentle un-rushed musical affair from James Haddock Jr. backed by a fantastic set of musicians including Nathan “Junior” Andersen of M.Ward/The Dandy Warhols.
Paul catches an intimate double bill from Austin-based songwriter Matt McCloskey and Andrew Combs who more than justifies the hype surrounding the Nashville based singer-songwriter.
