Songs of the Month

Songs often seem to call out in the absence of a lover, whether that person is next...

'It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends'. Taking her title from the essay by Joan Didion which closed the author's debut collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem, this week Jess Williamson introduces her new album A Mile South of Heaven by way of the single and record opener 'Goodbye to All That'. The singer duly notes: Didion's essay is about leaving New York after eight years and how 'it's distinctly possible...

Kris Davis Trio - 'The Subtext' The title of the upcoming album Lost In Geneva by the Kris Davis Trio apparently relates to the pitfalls and pratfalls of life on tour, in this case one of those mishaps - a missing piece of luggage or a cartographical abnormality or a simple journey gone awry - that always seems to occur...