Bluegrass

Blueflint - Maudy Tree

Déjà vu melodies and clichéd narratives winds up down the same old cul de sac

14 Sep 2011

(Jorock) If ever there was a band best suited to be heard in the ale-imbued confines of a wee folk club rather than in the car or at home, it’s Scottish quartet Blueflint. For every song on Maudy Tree that seems to begin promisingly with a subtle…

Blueflint

The banjo toting duo on their Edinburgh Americana

17 Sep 2009

Sometimes the path less travelled isn’t as peculiar as you might think. Admittedly on paper, Blueflint’s story isn’t an entirely conventional one, but the result is something wholly engaging to anyone’s ears: great songs. ‘Clare [Louise Neilson] and…

Southern Fried Festival - country music comes to Perth

23 Jul 2009

Glen Lyon, 1982, is as good a place to start as any. That summer Andy Shearer, son of the local deerstalking ghillie, met Will Oldham, a young American holidaying on the estate with his family. They struck up a friendship and began to swap music…

Blueflint

18 Oct 2007

Deborah Arnott and Clare-Louise Neilson, aka banjo duo Blueflint, play haunting bluegrass shot though with a yearning sadness and soothing harmonies. Influenced by old-time Americana they have added a full backing band (including Roddy Neilson, Ian…

Old Crow Medicine Show

20 Sep 2007

BLUEGRASS ABC, Glasgow, Thu 27 Sep Like the American travelling bands from whom they take their name, Old Crow Medicine Show’s musical education came on street corners and county fairs. They came together in 1998 in upstate New York, bought…

Reviews - The Greenman Bluegrass Boys

The Greenman Bluegrass Boys

13 Mar 2007

BLUEGRASS Out of the ashes to scratch Edinburgh’s leftfield itch, Octopus Diamond has inherited much of the feel (as well as the previously flouted constrictive license) of its predecessor The Left Bank. It is early days and for now the decorative…

Be Good Tanyas, The

The Be Good Tanyas

11 Nov 2006

Bluegrass, folk and country from all girl trio The Be Good Tanyas. Trish Klein, Frazey Ford and Samantha Parton play heart-breaking Americana and traditional alt.country standards, imbued with humanity and cracked gothic ambience straight from the…