Album/Single Reviews

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Caroline Marquard has made her mark today with the release of her debut EP, ‘The Prologue’. As one of our ‘DC Introduces’ artists at the Destination Country network, we’ve been hugely impressed by Caroline’s mature songwriting, gorgeous melodies and infectious personality, and those three aspects shine through in […]

Amid many fine releases in these locked down weeks, don’t let ‘Country Darkness, Vol. 2’, the second episode of My Darling Clementine’s series of EPs featuring the country songs of Elvis Costello, pass you by. Volume 2 may only contain four songs but duo Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish […]

Gone West are one of country music’s brightest emerging talents, and their first full-length album ‘Canyons’ is out now. Made up of Grammy-award winner Colbie Caillat, Caillat’s songwriting collaborator Jason Reeves, Nelly Joy (previously of the JaneDear girls), and Hawaiian Music Award winner Justin Young, the four-piece have been building […]

Since the release of his sophomore album, ‘Suffer In Peace’, back in 2015, Tyler Farr has been relatively quiet in terms of new music. There have been a slow trickle of standalone releases, with ‘Our Town’, ‘I Should Go To Church Sometime’ and ‘Love By The Moon’, but we haven’t […]

A bread factory in Bergen isn’t perhaps where you’d expect to find classic country music but that’s where London based Hannah White made her recent release. The location explains the Nordic Connections, White’s top notch Americana band. Hannah White, husband Kieron Marshall & The Nordic Connections recorded the album live […]

Discovering The Orange Circus Band felt like stumbling across a hoedown deep in Appalachia. It came as a slight surprise to find out they are from Kent and Wales, although there is a link to Virginia. From start to finish their new album Whistle In The Dawn is a glorious […]

It’s that time again! UK fan favourite Kip Moore is back with a new record, and boy, it’s a statement of intent. The ‘Wild Ones’ album, for me, has always been his best and most consistent piece of work, and is certainly one of the iconic albums when I look […]

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. […]