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Live Review: Hannah Aldridge + Jason Charles Miller, Cart and Horses, Stratford, London – 25th November 2025

December 15, 2025 0

I describe myself as a live music junkie – I can never get enough – and the particular joys for me include favourite artists, much loved venues, and of course new artists and new venues. The […]

Fairport Convention announce acts for 2026 Cropredy festival

December 15, 2025 0

After a sold-out edition in 2025, Fairport’s Cropredy Convention returns for 2026 with a trademark line-up of folk and rock heavyweights, alongside some of the UK’s most established and upcoming talent. Taking place across the 13th, […]

Cover art to Jerry Jeff Walker album "The Best Of, The Millennium Collection"

For The Sake Of The Song: Jerry Jeff Walker “Mr Bojangles”

December 15, 2025 0

Ronald Clyde Crosby was born in 1942 in Oneonta, a small city in Otsego County, New York, but to you and me, and the rest of the musical world, he was better known as Jerry Jeff […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 214 “Mea Culpa”

December 15, 2025 0

So, a couple of weeks ago, I was banging on about how at this time of year there was a proliferation of lists – best of the year, etc. Well, in the spirit of the prevailing […]

Lucinda Williams “So Much Trouble In The World” – features Mavis Staples

December 15, 2025 0

Sometimes these introductions write themselves – we know you know who Lucinda Williams, we know you know who Mavis Staples is, and we’d expect a good proportion of you to recognise ‘So Much Trouble In The […]

Features
For The Sake Of The Song: Jerry Jeff Walker “Mr Bojangles”
Ronald Clyde Crosby was born in 1942 in Oneonta, a small city in Otsego County, New York, but to you and me, and the rest of the musical world, he was better known as Jerry [...]
Features
Classic Clip: Mary Gauthier and Jaimee Harris “How Could You be Gone” -Take Root Festival, Groningen, Netherlands. November 2024
Rising star Jaimee Harris, with a voice that sounds like an edgier Emmylou Harris (who unsurprisingly just happens to be her hero) met the venerable singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier in 2017 at a songwriting workshop in [...]
Features
Oh no, I don’t recall, I can’t remember anything at all – Jon Aird’s 2025 year in review
What a year 2025 has been, musically speaking. There’s been a lot outside of music that has been…hmm, disappointing – one way or another. No one was really expecting the dawn of a new socialist [...]
Interviews
Interview: Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event on struggles, joys and the journey
Hard times, no, unusually hard times served to bring the Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett a sense of purpose in life as a singer, songwriter, band leader, author and speaker about childhood trauma. As [...]
Features
The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Peter Churchill
If one thing has become apparent from the lists that have appeared on these pages and the, not unsurprisingly, incredibly wide range of songs that have featured to date, it must be that it seems [...]

Video Premiere: Samuel Wilbur “Everything is Falling Apart”

December 15, 2025 0

Here’s the latest single from Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter Samuel Wilbur. ‘Everything is Falling Apart’ is an apocalyptic anthem for holding onto love, hope and everything that matters when the world is unravelling around us. The song builds […]

Something for the weekend: Shack “Comedy”

December 12, 2025 8

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader, and what a track to leave you with this week. Yesterday morning I was listening to 6 Music (I’m learning to tolerate Nick Grimshaw by being […]

Jingle Bells Friday – surely it’s a bit late for stir-up Sunday?

December 12, 2025 0

And now we’re less than two weeks away from the big celebration and all the signs confirm this – the weather is taking an upturn and if that means no White Christmas then it also means […]

Classic Clip: Mary Gauthier and Jaimee Harris “How Could You be Gone” -Take Root Festival, Groningen, Netherlands. November 2024

December 12, 2025 0

Rising star Jaimee Harris, with a voice that sounds like an edgier Emmylou Harris (who unsurprisingly just happens to be her hero) met the venerable singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier in 2017 at a songwriting workshop in Taos, […]

Oh no, I don’t recall, I can’t remember anything at all – Jon Aird’s 2025 year in review

December 12, 2025 0

What a year 2025 has been, musically speaking. There’s been a lot outside of music that has been…hmm, disappointing – one way or another. No one was really expecting the dawn of a new socialist utopia, […]

Lucinda Williams “So Much Trouble In The World” – features Mavis Staples
December 15, 2025 0
Sometimes these introductions write themselves – we know you know who Lucinda Williams, we know you know who Mavis Staples is, and we’d expect a good proportion of you to recognise ‘So Much Trouble In [...]
Video Premiere: Samuel Wilbur “Everything is Falling Apart”
December 15, 2025 0
Here’s the latest single from Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter Samuel Wilbur. ‘Everything is Falling Apart’ is an apocalyptic anthem for holding onto love, hope and everything that matters when the world is unravelling around us. The song [...]
Something for the weekend: Shack “Comedy”
December 12, 2025 8
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader, and what a track to leave you with this week. Yesterday morning I was listening to 6 Music (I’m learning to tolerate Nick Grimshaw by [...]
Jingle Bells Friday – surely it’s a bit late for stir-up Sunday?
December 12, 2025 0
And now we’re less than two weeks away from the big celebration and all the signs confirm this – the weather is taking an upturn and if that means no White Christmas then it also [...]
Anna Tivel “Swan Song” – a rumination on ephemerality
December 12, 2025 0
There’s a funny fact that we can impart before you go and break your heart listening to then latest single from Anna Tivel. ‘Swan Song‘ is taken from a new collection called “B Sides” which [...]

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