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Jason Isbell plays hometown Muscle Shoals gig

August 29, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Good morning everyone. If you’re in the US and wondered why we didn’t update yesterday it’s because we have these things called holidays. You used to have them once! (Actually not sure if this is true) […]

Videos

Video: Ray Wylie Hubbard “Spider, Snake And Little Sun”

August 29, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

The legend that is Ray Wylie Hubbard with a live performance of a song from his latest album, Tell The Devil I’m Gettin’ There As Fast As I Can.

Live Reviews

Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters, The American Museum in Britain, Bath, 20th August 2017

August 28, 2017 Peter Churchill 0

High up on Claverton Hill on the outskirts of Bath is the bucolic setting of The American Museum in Britain. Established in 1961 with the aim of educating the UK, and the world, about American cultural […]

Videos

Video: Helen & the Neighbourhood Dogs “What’s A Rainbow”

August 28, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

There wouldn’t normally be a video on a Bank Holiday but prompted by a fine set at Folk East last weekend from singer Tony Winn here’s a lovely video, proof of what you can do with […]

Album Reviews

Thea Gilmore “The Counterweight” (Cooking Vinyl, 2017)

August 25, 2017 Phil Grant 0

Thea Gilmore has been a song-writing heavyweight on the British circuit for a long time and has shown a knack for consistent quality and a down-to-earth music that fiddles with genre and tweaks the nose of expectation. Can […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 0

Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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Lucy Dacus has spent 2019 releasing holiday themed songs for all the biggies – Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Independence Day, Bruce Springsteen’s Birthday.  All the big holidays.  Have you recovered from Springsteen’s Birthday yet?  That’s always […]

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The Shootouts “Stampede”

February 15, 2023 0

Editor’s note: Occasionally I will completely mess up our reviews system and accidentally send the same album to two different writers. This is one such occasion – fortunately both writers essentially agreed so here are our […]

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Interview: Doug Levitt gets to the “Edge Of Everywhere” by Greyhound

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Echoes of Jack Kerouac and Guthrie for the 21st Century with a Muscle Shoals vibe. It has taken twelve years and something like 120,000 miles riding a Greyhound before Doug Levitt released his debut album, ‘Edge […]

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