Album/Single Reviews

With three Top 5 singles under his belt, it’s an exciting time for one of the hottest rising stars of the genre, Jordan Davis. The phrase ‘strike while the iron is hot’ is obviously something that his promo team at Universal have applied here, with the release of a new […]

Following the current trend for album releases, Chase Rice has dropped ‘Part II’ of ‘The Album’ featuring four new songs to follow-up the seven released on ‘Part I’ earlier this year. The new collection is a vast improvement on its predecessor, with lots more melodic depth, instant likeability and consistency. […]

Who better than Steve Earle to take up a cause? That’s what playwrights Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen thought when writing Coal Country, a play about a mining disaster. Ghosts of West Virginia, the 20th studio release by Steve Earle & The Dukes is the soundtrack to that stage show. […]

Rising star Travis Denning is no stranger to the UK nowadays. After lighting up the CMA Songwriters Series last year at The O2, Travis returned to the UK in October for the ‘Introducing Nashville’ tour, and since then his stock has risen considerably across the pond. ‘After A Few’ currently […]

Artists reveal much about themselves in their choice of cover versions to record or perform. For her latest release Gretchen Peters has devoted an entire album to the songs of Mickey Newbury, who she regards as her greatest sources of inspiration. The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of […]

Kenny Chesney has kept us guessing with his most recent albums. ‘Songs For The Saints’ saw a return to the island vibes of ‘Be As You Are’ and ‘Life On A Rock’, whilst ‘Cosmic Hallelujah’ was firmly situated in the mainstream fold. With his new project, ‘Here and Now’, Kenny […]

Back in 2016, which now seems an entirely separate existence, we attended a solo performance by American Aquarium front man BJ Barham in Manchester. He had released a solo album, ‘Rockingham’, and was promoting it. He was performing acoustically but also performed many of the AA back catalogue. We were […]

My Girl The River is a family affair; Kris Wilkinson, Joe Hughes and on occasion their daughter Ruby. They release their second album Cardinal in the Snow on 1 May. Through Wilkinson’s perceptive and deeply sincere writing My Girl The River muse on love, confront death, peer into the future […]

One of the most intriguing releases of the year is here in big, bold, brawny & brainless technicolour. Dierks Bentley’s side project, The Hot Country Knights, who started out as a bit of a laugh has morphed into something much more serious. Yes, this is a ‘joke’ project, and when […]

Following the release of their debut single ‘Before The Trend Set In’ last year, UK band The Fatherline have announced that their follow up single, ‘This Work Is A Drug’, is coming this Friday (May 1st). A statement of intent from one of the UK’s most intriguing up and coming […]