The important ones
Early Louis — the Hot Five thing. We play an absolutely raw version of Tiger Rag that our guitar player James arranged.
The standards matter, but discovering them is the fun part
One of the ballads on the [Easy Roller’s] album — called Maybe — is me trying to do that. When I first
It’s all about story
Ever since about 14 or 15 I was in a teenage rock band, trying to be Muse while my cooler friends were
An anti-establishment energy
I think what’s fascinating with the early jazz era is that it’s always, to a certain extent, captured the public imagination. It’s
Swampy New Orleans
There’s a really good Johnny Dodds album that’s interesting because Louis Armstrong couldn’t really release music under his own name outside of
A unexpected love of British folk
Everyone in the band is in other things as well, and you often find that when you’re writing something, when it first
More than a feeling
Beck’s Morning Phase feels like standing and stretching in the Hollywood Hills at dawn. A through-line for all these records we’ve been
One artist, one vocal, one guitar.
Amongst the albums that influenced Red Sky Warning, Pink Moon is one of the weirdest outliers. And I would argue it’s the
Big without volume, a whisper in your ear
As a devoted Radiohead fan, I always expect them to reinvent themselves when they release a new album, but this one really
The power of the album – a really curated and intentional set of songs
His [Glen Hansard’s] second solo album feels like a huge step forward into solitude within an even darker and cooler forest, with
These are the songs I’ve written. It’s just me.
It’s impossible that Rhythm And Repose is Glen Hansard’s first solo album, but it’s true. I’ve loved everything that he did with
The underdog of guitar solos
Reasonably recently I got the pleasure of watching Turin Brakes live for the first time in about 20 years since catching them
