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Any Port in A Storm – Brothers Osborne Make Land

19/06/2019 Carl Byron Batson

Drunken shanty renditions of Drank Like Hank would be heard throughout the streets of London into the early morning. (read more)

Jonesin’ For Home – Dale Watson Has A Sting In His Tail

09/06/2019 Carl Byron Batson

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)

A Beer Drinking Fender Bending Duck-tailed Buckaroo

24/05/2019 Carl Byron Batson

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)

Cracking Nuts Under The Apple Tree

05/05/2019 Carl Byron Batson

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)

Chewing Up A Banjo Plucking Storm

19/02/2019 Carl Byron Batson

The Dead South show a sold out O2 Forum they aint no punks (read more)

Revving Up For Christmas – Horton Gets Kinky

04/12/2018 Carl Byron Batson

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)

Ashley McBryde Wears Her Heart On Her Sleeve

18/10/2018 Carl Byron Batson

Arkansas’ rising Country star smashes Islington’s Assembly Hall (read more)

Cool As Folk – Cambridge Folk Festival 2018

08/08/2018 Sarah Corbett-Batson

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)

Sexy As Folk – Cambridge Folk Festival 2018

07/08/2018 Carl Byron Batson

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)

Horton (Heat), That’s Some Show!

16/07/2018 Carl Byron Batson

Reverend Horton Heat brings his whiskey-soaked drawl to London for a rare UK show. (read more)

Craic is pretty moreish!

26/03/2018 Carl Byron Batson

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)

Loitered Lens: Country to Country 2018 Launch

03/11/2017 Carl Byron Batson

Photographic highlights of the Country to Country 2018 launch event (read more)

Boots and Buckles at the Country to Country 2018 Launch Party

19/10/2017 Carl Byron Batson

The Country to Country (C2C) 2018 launch was an event in itself. (read more)

Genres: We’re Going to Need a Bigger Box

05/06/2017 Peter Elliott

Searching for antidotes to the Genre-Box-Pox (read more)

Loitered Lens: Frankie Ballard

23/05/2017 Carl Byron Batson

Heart-pumpin’ high energy country. Photos of Frankie Ballard at Islington Assembly Rooms (read more)

A Little Country, A Little Rock ‘n’ Roll. (Frankie Ballard, Islington Assembly Hall)

19/05/2017 Carl Byron Batson

Leopardskin body, tiger feet? Frankie Ballard glams up country at Islington Assembly Hall (read more)

Please Stomp on the Grass: Hayseed Dixie

04/05/2017 Emily Spankhurst

Tie-dyed dungarees, banjos and beards – Hayseed Dixie prove that beauty’s all in the ear (read more)

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Loitered Lens: Honey Ryder

09/02/2017 Carl Byron Batson

Honey Ryder brought bright Americana to a soggy Islington night. Photos (read more)

Loitered Lens: Aaron Watson

05/02/2017 Carl Byron Batson

Bright as dawn over Laredo, photos of Aaron Watson onstage at the Garage, London (read more)

Viral Vaquero: Aaron Watson at The Garage

03/02/2017 Carl Byron Batson

Bringing country to town, Aaron Watson tips a stetson to The Garage (read more)

Touching Down at the 100 Club (Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys)

23/09/2015 Trebuchet Magazine

Bringing twenty-five years of swinging Western tunes to the UK, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys (read more)

Easy on the whiskey now! Cockadoodledon’t (Vinyl re-release)

06/08/2015 Amy Booth

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)

A bewitching yet ruinous and wretched pastime [The Picturebooks]

14/04/2015 Sarah Corbett-Batson

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)

Red Ink and Difficult Happiness [Beth Hart]

13/04/2015 Kailas

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)

Manns’ slightly plain voice is flawless, but uninspired.

19/02/2015 Sean Keenan

There are some moderately engaging, essentially pleasant, songs on the album. Actually, they all are. (read more)

Ramblin’ Man Fair [25-26 July]

03/02/2015 Trebuchet Magazine

Blues, Classic rock, country, prog, gourmet food, a beer festival, spoken word stage, music cinema, luxury camping and accommodation. Hoo YAH! (read more)