Sophie Gault and Robert Connely Farr Reviewed
February 10, 2026
Sophie Gault – Merlot Dodge Dart
Have you ever lived next door to a great blues guitar player, and did you ever hear them howling out songs during the night? I sincerely doubt that. And, have you ever been asked to visit the house of a great musician whom you’d…
Arts Fishing Club and Heavy Petrol Reviewed
January 9, 2026
Arts Fishing Club – Feed Me to the Wolves
Are you looking for honesty from your hard-earned rock n’ roll? You’re unlikely to find much of that, although the indie-folk group Arts Fishing Club is a notable exception to the rule that states that rock songs that…
Kenny Sharp and The Life on Mars Reviewed
January 9, 2026
Kenny Sharp – My Own Good
Punk may not be dead, as some of the kids still insist, but the blues is sure breathing heavily and coughing loudly. But how did we get to this? By killing it slowly and with kindness, for the most part, I suspect.
Most of the…
Ma Polaine's Great Decline and Ojahara Reviewed
December 11, 2025
Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – Gasoline Can
If you look at passers-by and try to guess their stories, if you’re conservative enough in your estimates, you’re going to be right nine out of ten times. But don’t flatter yourself! It’s not because you are an…
People in a room negotiating how much noise each of them can make is something that simply cannot be beat. But it’s not like many haven’t tried. Since the dawn of rock n’ roll, those in the business of selling music have tried to find easier-to-control, cheaper…
Afton Wolfe - “Ophiuchus” Review
December 1, 2025
It’s impossible that great artists doing their work with a guitar were just… people. We all know that Robert Johnson was given his powers by the Devil, George Harrison was a yogic teacher tasked with infiltrating the world’s biggest pop group and Bob Dylan is William…
Dewey Kincade and The Navigators AND Baker Island Reviewed
November 18, 2025
Dewey Kincade and The Navigators- All Alone in This Together
Well, they do say that nobody’s properly dead and gone until the day that everybody stops talking about them, remembering them, living with the stories that they created. Remembrance is the one great…
Top 10 Songs by The J. Geils Band
November 15, 2025
The J. Geils Band was made up of mad, bad, and dangerous to know blues players who, by the 1980s, had become a successful pop group. Fans of either one or the other era were never quite able to reconcile the two extremes. Still, I believe that both are worth your time. The…
Jonivan Jones and Afton Wolfe Reviewed
November 12, 2025
Jonivan Jones – Midnight Mosey
There’s more that regular people admire about the true bohemians, other than their colourful scarves, their filterless cigarettes, and their ability to follow their own muse wherever that may take them.
Yeah, those things…