In today’s post John Davis explores the bleaker aspects of being in hospital. Including that death was an ever present, at times he felt he had nothing more to give and his […]
Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 4: Walk Not Alone Among The Flames
1. Lost and Found: Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Part One. A Very Personal Ameripolitan Story. By John M. Davis
In series of 5 posts John Davis reviews Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue’s new album Lost and Found. This first post summarises the different characters that emerge across the album; […]
2. Lost and Found: Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Part Two: The Punk Rock Patsy Cline. By John M. Davis
At a time where listeners are looking for authenticity, Niemann is the real deal; heartfelt, honest and uncontrived. She does for country music what Amy Winehouse did for the blues/jazz sounds. Winehouse’s […]
3. Lost and Found: Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Part Three: When Melancholy Collides With Specificity It Makes You Cry. By John M. Davis
This third post continues our review of Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue’s new album Lost and Found. In particular it discusses how Vanessa Niemann has married the tradition of […]
4. Lost and Found: Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Part Four: Cause He Looks So Damn Pretty – So Unrefined. By John M. Davis
This post continues our review of Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue’s new album; Lost and Found. It discusses four of the songs on the album that include morality tales, Desert […]
Anything Is Possible – If We Open The Doors In Our Minds
By John Davis The last post in this blog attempted to understand the context of Benny Lynch’s life and challenged deficit model assumptions about him, the community he grew up in (the […]
Change Comes From Within: Muhammad Ali, Country Music, Scotland and Unity
The death of Muhammad Ali led me to write an article for Common Space concerning what we could learn from Ali’s life. – see the link to the article here the two […]
Sometimes It’s Hard To be A ‘Natural Woman’?: But, #LoveWins If We Recognise, ‘None Of Us Are Free Until All Of Us Are Free’ (Post 1)
This post quickly questions notions of gender normalisation by connecting ideas from queer studies to the notion that people have multiple identities. It concludes that we should not judge one woman against […]
Gal Holiday and the Honkey Tonk Revue rock Woodland Creatures with a mix of rockabilly twang, gospel and country classics.
I first encountered Gal Holiday and the Honkey Tonk Revue at the ‘Three Muses’ Frenchmen Street on a work trip to New Orleans last August and was immediately struck with their ability […]
