If you’re described as ‘Laurel Canyon-style folk rock with shades of Joni Mitchell’, you’ve got my attention for sure. And to be honest, the soulful folk duo Native Harrow had ...
A lot of the times when I’ve just finished filming a session, I can’t stop smiling. At Take Root festival, the smiling began as soon as Cedric Burnside walked into ...
One of the songs I might have played most in the past years, is ‘1922’ by Phil Cook from his album Southland Mission. I soon found out it was a ...
The first time I heard Caroline Spence’s single ‘Sit Here And Love Me’, was in a plane – somewhere in between Amsterdam and Glasgow. When Ryan Joseph Burns picked me ...
Caleb Elliott and I spoke about staying hungry for music, discovering fairly late there’s more than just classical music and the important people in his development; his high school orchestra ...
It was January 29th 2015, when I first met American songwriter Andrew Combs. I was in the upstairs room in Paradiso Amsterdam and Justin Townes Earle had just finished his ...
The first time I heard Benbecula by the Scottish songwriter Michael Cassidy was in Amsterdam when Ryan Joseph Burns played me a mix on his phone. It sounded incredible already. But ...
Sometimes there’s little time between getting to know a band and filming a session. It only ever happens though if I immediately like the music a lot. The Canadian band ...
The Austin-based songwriter Carson McHone visited us in Utrecht’s finest record store Plato with her band to record two originals and a dangerously addictive Teddy Thompson cover.
Christopher Paul Stelling has quickly become one of my very favourite folk singers from the last decade. The American already recorded a session for The Influences some years ago and ...
Meeting Churchill in Amsterdam, I saw a polite, very determined and self-assured musician, who knows what he wants and how he wants to get there. No shortcuts allowed. I like ...
I’ve been fascinated by Courtney Marie Andrews’ talent as a songwriter and a singer since the instant classic ‘Honest Life’. Now, with her equally daring and striking new record ‘May ...
Christof van der Ven originates from a small town in The Netherlands, but now resides in London. He toured as the support of the likes of The Staves and Bear’s ...
The great thing about Chatham County Line is that they combine the typical bluegrass sound with a more traditional element and an impeccable songwriting talent. Everything about this band just ...
It’s hard not to think of Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention when listening to Kacy Lee Anderson’s voice, but luckily there’s a lot more to Kacy & Clayton than just ...
Born and raised in Texas, but now a resident of Nashville, it is no surprise Cale Tyson sings country songs. But, he does it very very well.
Early in 2014 I filmed a session with Michael Taylor a.k.a. Hiss Golden Messenger, because I had become addicted to his records. Learning more about his music, I found out ...
After stumbling upon a video on YouTube of Christopher Paul Stelling playing one of his songs live, I was rather impressed by the vigour and drive the Brooklyn-based songwriter radiated. ...
Whenever musicians that I like announce shows in The Netherlands, I tend to keep an eye on who their support act will be. Especially when they’re bringing someone with them ...
Next week the debut album of Clean Pete will be released on Excelsior Recordings. The twin sisters Renee and Loes Wijnhoven have teamed up with Anne Soldaat, who’s also produced ...
He hoped to escape for a while without creating too much of a fuss, but although he had already made the decision in the summer of 2012 – a couple ...
The first time I met Ben Caplan, I was seated about two meters from his piano and obviously wasn’t acquainted with the volume of his voice yet. It was Record ...
The first time I recorded a session with Case Mayfield, the servers had a hard time keeping up with the amount of visitors. Now, three years later, Mayfield has done ...
Last week, The Band-drummer Levon Helm died. It made me think not only of all the great songs he’s responsible for, or ‘The Last Waltz’ which is one of my ...
The book release night at EKKO was amazing. I won’t tell you that twice, so take note. Norbert Pek hosted the night, the musicians from the book played great shows, ...
The last time I posted a blog on Case Mayfield, the servers started smoking and I had to pay a lot of money to get the website up and running ...
Remember that session with Case Mayfield, that caused the smoke coming out of our servers? I know, it was amazing. Well, those videos weren’t the only ones recorded with Mayfield ...
This guy is something special. Everytime he picks up his guitar and starts singing, all things around you tend to stop happening. He released an amazing EP last year and ...
The first person to get me hooked to Ray LaMontagne was mister Davie Lawson who told about a live show he attended. I’ve been addicted ever since and have got ...
In 2009 and 2010, I temporarily ran a side project called The Canal Sessions for which we filmed sessions with musicians on a boat on the canals of Utrecht, the ...
In December, all the musicians who’d performed at the Onder Invloed live show in Amsterdam joined forces at the end of Nat Jenkins‘ set and played ‘The Weight’ by The ...
From the 16th till the 23rd of March, sound engineer Ro Halfhide and I visited Glasgow, Scotland, to film sessions and footage for a documentary about the city’s music scene ...
As I wrote earlier; on Wednesday the 28th of January, the first edition of Onder Invloed Live took place at Cafe U ROCK in Utrecht. The Cosmic Carnival and GEM-singer ...
“There’s a mp3 of a new song in your mail. What do you think?” There was a period I got messages like this one about every week. They came from ...
Dutch singer Charlie Dée played a tribute concert to Joni Mitchell at the travelling festival de Parade, in the Summer of 2008. It gave me the chance to film a ...
Earlier on there was Lukas Batteau ‘Onder Invloed’ live in Germany, now here is Closer To Curtis ‘Onder Invloed’ live at the EKKO, Utrecht. Three songs from the last concert ...
Singer Ernst Grevink (Erny Green) will be transforming into Ian Curtis. Together with his fellow band members – Joris van Grunsven, Joost Kuijer and Gerald Roerdinkveldboom – he’ll be touring ...