Album/Single Reviews

Jake Owen is back, baby, although don’t let Jake hear you say that because in his mind he has never been away and it will make him angry! ‘Greetings…’ replete with its front-cover, vacation postcard imagery, is Jake’s first album since 2016’s ‘American Love’ if you don’t count the ‘get […]

No Saint: introducing Lauren Jenkins! Big Machines’ little pocket rocket. Jenkins is already on the New York Times, Billboard, Rolling Stone and Pandora, Artist to Watch lists! Born in Texas and raised in Carolina, singer-songwriter Lauren is no stranger to life on the road. Touring the US since she was […]

Texan born, Nashville based ‘pocket-rocket’ Maren Morris set the world ablaze in 2016 with her homage to Country music in ‘My Church’. She burst into tears at the C2C Festival in London when the crowd at the O2 Arena sang the song back to her, unprompted, whilst she performed from […]

The sheer pleasure of discovering a new band or artist whose music clicks immediately is as vibrant as ever. 2019 has started well and my latest find that I’d really like to shout about is The Orange Circus who have just released a new single, ‘The Saturday Song’. The Orange […]

English Country sweetheart Jade Helliwell is having a pretty huge 2019 so far. Not only has she toured Australia with Buckle & Boots and been announced on the C2C line up, she is back with her latest single Stormchaser, which is already receiving traction after premiering on Chris Country Radio […]

It’s no secret that I’ve been waiting for the release of Logan Brill’s Walk of Shame for just under two years, since I heard her perform it at C2C in March 2017, and was it ever worth the wait? Yes, yes, it was. I’ve only listened to Logan perform the […]

I’ve played Restless Minds again, probably for the fourth time this week, and I’m a bit restless.  The ballad-led third studio album from the British, effervescent and harmonious twin sisters, Lizzy and Catherine Ward Thomas, is drawing out a restless spirit in me.  What is it that they’re trying to […]

Welcome to the most divisive album of 2019. Just by the very nature of its title, the FGL boys, Tyler Hubbard and Brian ‘BK’ Kelley are setting themselves up for all manner of confrontations and you know what? I think they’re prepared and ready for it – just check out […]

It was Paula Cole, who presciently sang ‘Where Have All the Cowboys Gone’ back in 1996 when 90’s Country was at its peak and you couldn’t move for boots, belts, buckles and hats. Fast forward twenty years or so and it is a more pertinent question for many Country music […]

‘Shine A Little Light’ has been a long time coming for The Southern Companion.  It’s their first release since ‘1000 Days Of Rain’ back in 2015, which went on to win Album Of The Year at the British Country Music Awards, and helped the band establish themselves as one of […]