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Interview: Sonia Leigh

August 3, 2017 Rudie Hayes 0

She is always in black, almost always in shades, she is old school cool, sexy, sassy and oozes that rock and roll chic long sucked out the business to make music by the lowest common denominator.  […]

Album Reviews

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 […]

Album Reviews

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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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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Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter has announced the release of her debut album “Cry Baby” on 11th October 2024 via Lauren Records. Arielle was born and raised in Los Angeles. After high school, she embarked on an artistic […]

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Erin Rae “Putting On Airs” (Single Lock, 2018)

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“Putting On Airs” is both a visually and musically arresting album. The painting which serves as the cover of the record is worthy of investigation in its own right. A seemingly forlorn looking waitress in a […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 173 – “Promotion”

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Not as you’d expect perhaps a discussion of the merits or otherwise of joining the Premier League and the pitfalls that that can have for a team – as a Leicester City supporter I know only […]

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