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The Truffle Boys live at the Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham - 21st July 2026

Live Review: The Truffle Valley Boys, The Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham – 21st July 2026

July 30, 2026 0

There is a particular kind of pleasure in listening to crackly vinyl, hearing the ghosts of bluegrass and honky-tonk pioneers through layers of hiss and surface noise. But those records can sometimes leave you wondering what […]

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass unveils initial line up plus associated shows

July 30, 2026 0

Live stream available if you can’t make it! Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB) has shared the initial lineup for its 2026 edition in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from Friday 2nd October to Sunday 4th October 2026. […]

The indefatigable Richard Thompson introduces his Hippies, Thugs and Heroes in October

July 30, 2026 0

Richard Thompson will release his 20th studio album, Hippies, Thugs and Heroes, on October 16th via New West Records. The 12-track set was produced by Thompson and James Frazee and recorded in Weehawken, New Jersey. It […]

Kate Prascher “Thousand A Million” – a lot, anyway

July 30, 2026 0

Kate Prascher’s new single Thousand A Million entwines the physical with the metaphysical in an intriguing and beguiling folk song that plays with notions of time and space (no, not like Dr Who). Kate Prascher describes […]

Video: Elanor Moss “The Way That It Feels” – A song about not turning away, but turning towards

July 30, 2026 0

The Way That It Feels is the latest release from London-based Elanor Moss. Delicate, tuneful classical guitar unfolds over the captured sounds of birdsong while her fluid voice ranges high and low in a beautifully haunting […]

Essentials
Essentials: The Top 10 country-soul songs
As a teenager, I would have been very sniffy about both country and soul music. However, years have made me wiser, and I now fully appreciate them both. Country-soul is a great hybrid, with soul [...]
Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it
Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Matraca Berg
Yes I know I am picking two albums from a catalogue of only 8, two of which are compilations and one that was never released. For some reason the label didn’t like it, though two [...]
Interviews
Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is [...]
Interviews
Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, [...]
Features
More People Really Should Know About: Hayden
When we say more people should know about Hayden, I’m not talking about the beloved 18th-century composer and founder of Viennese Classicism, but about Paul Hayden Desser, the Canadian singer-songwriter who has been quietly ploughing [...]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Matraca Berg

July 29, 2026 1

Yes I know I am picking two albums from a catalogue of only 8, two of which are compilations and one that was never released. For some reason the label didn’t like it, though two of […]

Gary Marks “Sky High” – How could water catch fire?

July 29, 2026 0

This new song is a relatively old song; it comes from Gary Marks’ unreleased album A Whisper Can Change The World, recorded in 2007. So, why unreleased? Gary Marks had started out on his singer-songwriter path […]

Amy Speace to release debut poetry collection and new single

July 29, 2026 0

Award-winning singer-songwriter and poet Amy Speace will release her debut collection of poetry titled The Cardinals on Tuesday 1st September 2026. It will be published by Red Hen Press. Speace will also be releasing an accompanying […]

Live Review: Seasick Steve, Folk by the Oak – 19th July 2026

July 29, 2026 0

On a long, hot Sunday afternoon, there can’t be many places better to be than at one of the most laid-back of festivals, Folk by the Oak, which is held in the grounds of Hatfield House. […]

Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0

American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]

Kate Prascher “Thousand A Million” – a lot, anyway
July 30, 2026 0
Kate Prascher’s new single Thousand A Million entwines the physical with the metaphysical in an intriguing and beguiling folk song that plays with notions of time and space (no, not like Dr Who). Kate Prascher [...]
Video: Elanor Moss “The Way That It Feels” – A song about not turning away, but turning towards
July 30, 2026 0
The Way That It Feels is the latest release from London-based Elanor Moss. Delicate, tuneful classical guitar unfolds over the captured sounds of birdsong while her fluid voice ranges high and low in a beautifully [...]
Gary Marks “Sky High” – How could water catch fire?
July 29, 2026 0
This new song is a relatively old song; it comes from Gary Marks’ unreleased album A Whisper Can Change The World, recorded in 2007. So, why unreleased? Gary Marks had started out on his singer-songwriter [...]
Track Premiere: Sara Milonovich & Daisycutter “What We Did With The Place”
July 29, 2026 0
Sara Milonovich has been taking stock as she prepares her fourth album, Last Resort Motor Inn, and she has some stock to take note of. She was raised on a family farm in upstate New [...]
Video: Ghost Flowers “By Then” – how to carve your place in life
July 29, 2026 0
Be absorbed by the new single from husband and wife duo Armand and SJ Lance, also known as Ghost Flowers. By Then is an atmospheric introduction to the duo, who began writing and recording songs [...]

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