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Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall, 27-30 July 2017

August 7, 2017 Jeremy Searle 1

Every festival, everywhere, delivers a special moment or two, things that it will be remembered for in years to come.  This year’s Cambridge Folk Festival was no different, with two hugely significant moments. The first was […]

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Indigo Girls, Islington Assembly Hall, London, 29th July 2017

August 7, 2017 Keith Clifford 1

Amy Ray and Emily Saliers took to the stage to rapturous applause and resounding cheers.  It’s been eight years since they last toured the UK and it was clear that the Indigo Girls had been missed […]

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Jemima Price Band ”Fragile House” (Wisecrack Records, 2017)

August 7, 2017 Nick Jarman 0

Jemima Price Band bring their second record ”Fragile House” as a follow-up to the acclaimed ”No Alibi For Alice”, a record also created as a project of love for roots music between Jemima and her long-time […]

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Hayley Thompson-King “Large Hall, Slow Decay” – Listen

August 7, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Boston, MA-based fuzz-americana artist (another new genre is born) Hayley Thompson-King cryptically refers to her debut solo album, “Psychotic Melancholia”, as a “Sodom and Gomorrah concept album” influenced by her childhood obsession with the so-called wicked women […]

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Daniel Martin Moore “Turned Over To Dreams” (Sofaburn Records, 2017)

August 7, 2017 Paul Kerr 0

Almost an album of lullabies, Turned Over To Dreams was recorded after Kentucky writer Moore discovered that close friends of his had used one of his previous albums to lull their child to sleep. A singer […]

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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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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

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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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Lee Ann Womack “The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone” (ATO Records, 2017)

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Even if you really enjoy camping and spend most of your holidays enjoying the benefits of communing so close to nature, it still feels wonderful when you spring for a night in a five-star hotel and […]

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