There are certainly things to be avoided in Nashville as far as I’m concerned. But to me that’s a different business altogether and it’s a different thing, it’s really the entertainment business and not the music world to me. (read more)
CFF 2019 showcased some incredible new talent. Amy Montgomery is one of the few performers who stops you dead in your tracks and forces you to lower your lens to breathe in the sheer brilliance of it all (read more)
Drunken shanty renditions of Drank Like Hank would be heard throughout the streets of London into the early morning. (read more)
Country music is a snake that started eating its own body. I suspect in that time, it will eat its own head. There’s no identity to the sound anymore. You used to know when you hit the Country station on your radio. Now you can’t tell the difference between the genres. (read more)
On CALL ME LUCKY, Watson sings with fondness about his girlfriend, rockabilly singer Celine Lee, on “You Weren’t Supposed to Feel This Good,” while “Mama’s Smile” would have been perfectly suited for a young Elvis. (read more)
Their music has an underlying groove combined with an earthy spirituality that makes you want to kick off your boots and dance around the nearest stone circle. (read more)
The Dead South show a sold out O2 Forum they aint no punks (read more)
e last saw Jim Heath playing London’s O2 Islington in the sad wake of Cramps drummer, Nick Knox’s passing. Now REVEREND HORTON HEAT come roaring back with their 12th masterpiece Whole New Life. The zesty, infectious eleven (read more)
Arkansas’ rising Country star smashes Islington’s Assembly Hall (read more)
ambridge Folk Festival 2018 poured the perfect mix with the extended weekend getting off to a flying start on Thursday with the fast and wild trashgrass of Whiskey Shivers. With a lead singer sporting a (read more)
With headliners First Aid Kit and Patti Smith, Cambridge Folk Festival has become far more than a meeting of beardy real ale connoisseurs with pewter tankards and mandolins. (read more)
Reverend Horton Heat brings his whiskey-soaked drawl to London for a rare UK show. (read more)
Trebuchet slides its way down to Islington on a snowy St Patrick’s Day to bear witness to the Country stylings of ex-Popster Derek Ryan. (read more)
Photographic highlights of the Country to Country 2018 launch event (read more)
The Country to Country (C2C) 2018 launch was an event in itself. (read more)
Searching for antidotes to the Genre-Box-Pox (read more)
Heart-pumpin’ high energy country. Photos of Frankie Ballard at Islington Assembly Rooms (read more)
Leopardskin body, tiger feet? Frankie Ballard glams up country at Islington Assembly Hall (read more)
Tie-dyed dungarees, banjos and beards – Hayseed Dixie prove that beauty’s all in the ear (read more)
Honey Ryder brought bright Americana to a soggy Islington night. Photos (read more)
Bright as dawn over Laredo, photos of Aaron Watson onstage at the Garage, London (read more)
Bringing country to town, Aaron Watson tips a stetson to The Garage (read more)
Bringing twenty-five years of swinging Western tunes to the UK, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys (read more)
Listening to Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers feels like swillin’ liquor in a Kentucky barn which, if you’re very lucky, you aren’t sharing with the hogs. (read more)
Combining classic garage rock, the North European darkness of doom metal and the melancholy exhilaration of riding a custom chopper through the old Route 66 ghost towns of Arizona (read more)
This has been the most difficult, the most scary experience I’ve had writing and making a record and I know why. It’s because I was scared. (read more)
There are some moderately engaging, essentially pleasant, songs on the album. Actually, they all are. (read more)
Blues, Classic rock, country, prog, gourmet food, a beer festival, spoken word stage, music cinema, luxury camping and accommodation. Hoo YAH! (read more)
Country music legend George Hamilton IV has died aged 77 of a heart attack in Nashville, Tennessee (read more)
My old label had some suggestions that I sing like Alanis Morisette! I said, ‘F*ck that!’
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