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John Guliak “Fluke or Flounder” (Independent, 2016)

May 15, 2017 Dave Clarke 0

Dust, the first track on this outstanding album, is up there with the best of them. It has, all over it, the care and confidence of an expertly produced record. Here is homage to the dust […]

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Aaron Lee Tasjan tour including End Of The Road Festival appearance

May 15, 2017 Paul Kerr 0

Hot on the heels of the announcement that he’s a nominee for this year’s Americana Music Association’s Emerging Artist of the Year award modern day cosmic cowboy Aaron Lee Tasjan heads to the UK for a […]

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Justin Currie announces more tour dates

May 15, 2017 Paul Kerr 0

About to set out on the road to promote his new album This Is My Kingdom Now which was released last Friday,  Justin Currie has announced a second major tour commencing in October.

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Cheshire Carr “Odds And Ends” (Independent, 2017)

May 15, 2017 David Cowling 0

CC are a Montreal-based folk collective, with the collective aspect shown by the many different voices and the mix of styles and textures. The album has a kind of collective identity but also a compilation feel. At its best, […]

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Richard Thompson releasing two new acoustic collections and touring in October

May 15, 2017 Paul Kerr 0

Following the success of his Acoustic Classics album in 2014 when the celebrated singer songwriter and guitarist revisited his back catalogue Richard Thompson returns to the format with two new albums which will be released simultaneously […]

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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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Contractually, you understand, we have to be extra nice to people who’ve granted us a premiere, as The Hearts have today.  But…look at that picture, have you ever seen a more Americana looking band…and surely one […]

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Joe Edwards “Keep On Running” (Tiny Mountain Records, 2020)

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The natural inclination for Americana buffs may be to head SxSW to Texas in search of new and interesting talent to add to bulging collections. But hey, how about heading W-S-W from London instead, to the […]

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Does this January seem to be just dragging on ?  Dark nights and grey days, like a perpetual Groundhog Day or the same bad song on repeat.  Well, we have something here to energise your Monday.  […]

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