This is my first encounter with the music of William Russell Wallace. He had a previously well received album DIRTY SOUL, but on the evidence here this new release is every bit as good. Although Americana seems to come up in media mentions, to my mind it is a little more on the roots/rock side of things – a little more Tav Falco than full on Tom Petty to these ears (though the latter was undoubtably an influence).
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At the age of nineteen, Jim Keaveny set off travelling around the USA, hitch-hiking, hopping on and off freight trains, playing guitar and harmonica and finding his voice as a song-writer. Keaveny remembers these times fondly: “These were the best years of my life. I met some of my best friends and felt I was finding myself – with like minds, the guitar, the traveling, and the poetry.” READ MORE…
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that the world has a long way to go when it comes to normalizing our full suite of feelings, and for it being “okay” to not “be okay.” Isolation was 2020’s buzzword; we all felt it to some degree, and for a brief flicker in history, folks around the world were connecting and empathizing around feelings of sadness and pain, depression and disarray. READ MORE…
Given his fervently emotive vocals and honky tonk fueled explosive rock, Canadian alt-country/Americana artist B.Knox, surely should be a well-worn name by now. Yeah, Canada had its share of recent troubadours like Colter Wall but Knox is here to elevate his own game and that of the Great North to the showmanship prowess of Jason Isbell and Shakey Graves.
Atwood Magazine is proud to present their staff-procured list of Artists to Watch in 2022, in alphabetical order (you can jump directly to an artist by clicking their name above). READ MORE…