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Sara Watkins - Under The Pepper Tree (Album Review)

March 26, 2021 by Rich Barnard in Album Reviews, Folk, Singer-Songwriter

As a ground-down and curmudgeonly father of two, I am possibly not the best person to be reviewing Sara Watkins’ new children’s album. Children’s album. To me, it’s a chilling pairing of words. Having endured eight long years of inane toddler CDs on perpetual repeat, I like to think that this particular hell-genre has in some way contributed to my frankly harrowing mental and physical decline. I put it to you that children’s music is just one of the many unpleasant forms of torture visited upon unsuspecting parents the world over and therefore ought not to be encouraged.

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March 26, 2021 /Rich Barnard
Sara Watkins, Nickel Creek, I'm With Her
Album Reviews, Folk, Singer-Songwriter
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Johnny Cash - Forever Words (Album Review)

April 23, 2018 by David Vousden in Album Reviews, Americana, Bluegrass, Country

Growing up there was one album that never seemed to be very far from the old stereo in the back room (as we called it) of my family home. That album was ‘Johnny Cash at San Quentin’ and to this day I can’t hear that album and not think of my Dad. There always seems to be a debate over the Prison albums but for me, it’ll always be ‘San Quentin’ that I’ll reach for and Johnny Cash would, in a roundabout way, become the inspiration for Red Guitar Music, but that’s another story. I have a good deal of respect for John Carter Cash and the Cash family who’ve treated the Cash catalogue, in the nearly fifteen years since Johnny Cash passed with great dignity. No signs of mud-slinging and courtroom battles here, maybe the likes of the Zappa and Prince families should take note.

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April 23, 2018 /David Vousden
Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, Kacey Musgraves, T Bone Burnett, Rosanne Cash, John Mellencamp, Jewel, Elvis Costello, Carlene Carter, Dailey & Vincent, I'm With Her, Robert Glasper, Ro James, The Jayhawks, Jamey Johnson, Alison Krauss
Album Reviews, Americana, Bluegrass, Country
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I'm With Her - See You Around (Album Review)

February 12, 2018 by Rich Barnard in Acoustic, Album Reviews, Bluegrass, Folk

Celebrated bluegrass stars Sara Watkins, Aoife O’Donovan and Sarah Jarosz first joined forces as a trio in 2014 and, having dabbled with some singles and live appearances in the last couple of years, they’re now releasing their debut album ‘See You Around’.  As individual live performers each has a formidable reputation, so catching them as a band on their current tour is surely a must (they’re back in the UK in May if you missed their recent London show).  Given Jarosz’s modest collection of Grammy awards and the lauded, long-established band and solo careers of O’Donovan and Watkins (of Crooked Still and Nickel Creek fame, respectively) it’s little wonder that this release carries with it the weight of high expectation.

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February 12, 2018 /Rich Barnard
I'm With Her, Sara Watkins, Aoife O'Donovan, Sarah Jarosz
Acoustic, Album Reviews, Bluegrass, Folk
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