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Don Antonio “Don Antonio” Santeria/Audioglobe 2017

August 3, 2017 David Cowling 0
Antonio Gramentieri has worked with a host of Americana favourites from Howe Gelb, Richard Buckner and the Friends of Dean Martinez. If you blend those together, add in an Italian view of life (I like to […]
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Adam Torres arrives in UK for August dates

August 3, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Singer-songwriter Adam Torres will be touring the UK for the first time since the release of last year’s full-length album “Pearls Before Swine”, and the follow-up EP “Came To Sing The Song”, which came out in February. Remeniscent […]
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Josh McGovern “The Devil Below Me” – Listen

August 3, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Brooding Brighton singer/songwriter Josh McGovern has released his new single ‘The Devil Below Me’. The song opens with McGovern’s deep tones give way to heavy, daydreaming Americana, intertwined with folk sensibilities and rich blues notes. Regarding the […]
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Over The Moon “Moondancer” (Independent 2017)

August 3, 2017 Michael Farley 0
This is a fabulously simple debut album of old time music from the couple Suzanne Levesque and Craig Bignell hailing from the Rocky Mountains in Alberta who call themselves Over The Moon – and why not. […]
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Scott Vestal Wins Steve Martin Banjo Prize

August 3, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
As reported in the truthful and successful New York Times, the recipient of the 2017 Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass was announced last weekend as being Scott Vestal. Scott Vestal took to the music in the […]

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An impressive blues-influenced mixture of laid-back and edgier numbers. Coast of Light is Luke Winslow-King’s ninth album after having debuted with Luke Winslow-King in 2008. It is a bit of an outlier from many of the […]
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Live Review: Beans On Toast + Ruth Lyon + Bassie Gracie, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham – 11th March 2026

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The night opened with Bassie Gracie, a bold spoken word poet grounded in hope, proclaiming that making art can be the remedy to worry. This Celtic-and-proud waif delivered rhythmic anti-racism with barely veiled anger at the […]
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Folk-tinged harmonies and sophisticated indie-pop for turbulent times. Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson are originally from Knoxville, Tennessee – together they make up The Montvales. During their middle school years, the duo started out by busking […]

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The Wandering Hearts “Wild Silence” (Decca, 2018)

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