Country Rock

Band of Horses are back in the saddle

3 Jun 2010

Get your lighters out. Band of Horses are bringing their country-tinged rock to Bellahouston Park. Ryan Drever traces the path that brought them here. Upon forming in Seattle in 2004, Band Of Horses hit the ground running. After landing an early break…

The Wynntown Marshalls

15 Apr 2010

Good-time country rock ‘n’ roll from … uh, Kirkcaldy. The Wynntown Marshals are about as Scottish as Irn Bru and deep-fried Mars bars, but with glorious pedal steel and cowboy harmonies, you could be forgiven for thinking they were raised on root beer…

Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers

25 Jun 2009

With a combined musical history that takes in solo singer-songwriting, conventional indie-rock bands (The Common Redstarts, Parka) and alternative multi-instrumental squadron Orkestra Del Sol, the six-piece, Edinburgh and Glasgow-based Woodenbox with a…

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band

31 Jul 2008

COUNTRY ROCK (Wichita) It’s been just over a year since he put out Cassadaga with Bright Eyes and Conor Oberst is at it again, conjuring up songs that sound like instant modern classics. This album (staggeringly the 18th of his career) finds the…

God-Fearing Atheists

Album

7 May 2007

COUNTRY ROCK With two ex-punks, one indie-boy and a drummer who plays in jazz bands at a tennis club, it was an obvious career move to form an alt.country band together. Not only that, but a really quite good one - the Glaswegian God-Fearing Atheists…

Records - The Bees

The Bees

27 Mar 2007

COUNTRY ROCK Is there any band that says summer more than The Bees? I don’t know what they put in the water on the Isle of Wight, but this is one of the most breezy records you’re likely to hear. It should be given out at the gates of every summer…