Music
2025
Brown Horse
Young Englishmen with immense knowledge of American folk history: from Woody Guthrie to Jason Molina
You need to have a vivid imagination if you want to feel like you're in the Great Plains in 1933, while actually living in the medieval cathedral city of Norwich. But if Brown Horse is anything, it is an empathetic band. The early old six-piece has done its homework, sometimes literally sings the lyrics of Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers, but has also traversed the entire subsequent American folk history: we hear The Band, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Uncle Tupelo, and Magnolia Electric Co.; fiddles, pedal steel, accordion, lyrics full of lost souls, and a troubled voice that seems to come straight out of a coal mine. Alt-country is in full swing – even in the far east of England.
