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Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit, Albert Hall, Manchester, 25th October 2017

October 30, 2017 Dave Jennings 1

The resplendent setting of a former Methodist hall in central Manchester was a suitable venue to welcome Jason Isbell back to these shores and an expectant congregation of devotees were not disappointed by an evening that […]

Album Reviews

El Goodo “By Order of the Moose” (Strangetown Records, 2017)

October 30, 2017 David Cowling 0

With bands like El Goodo you have to buy into what they’re doing or not engage at all. They indulge in a glorious nostalgia for 1960’s music – the signifiers are all decades old, they’re not […]

Tracks

Chris Stapleton “Millionaire” – Listen

October 30, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Like the sickly sweet shortbread of the same name, Chris “Staple Gun” Stapleton has released Millionaire, a new song from his forthcoming album “From A Room: Volume 2.” which is a cover of the Kevin Welch country […]

News

Jason Isbell appears on Andrew Marr Show

October 30, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Jason Isbell made an appearance on the Andrew Marr show yesterday morning playing the track If We Were Vampires from his latest album.  Described by Marr as “the maverick star of americana” you can catch the […]

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Jesse Dayton +James Edwyn & The Borrowed Band, Stereo, Glasgow, Wednesday 25th October 2017

October 30, 2017 Paul Kerr 0

“It might get loud in here,” Jesse Dayton’s opening words on arriving on stage for this hotly anticipated gig. He wasn’t kidding. From the moment he and his two sidekicks slammed into Daddy Was A Badass, […]

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

February 10, 2026 0

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 […]

Interviews

Interview: Elles Bailey on collaboration, her voice, and not taking her story away

February 3, 2026 0

When one says award-winning artist about a singer, Elles Bailey would certainly fall into this category, having been named to an impressive list, including: UK Americana Live Act of the Year, UK Blues Artist of the […]

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So the not entirely unexpected news came last night that Black Deer, a festival now synonymous with the heart of Americana music in the UK, has been cancelled – for the second year in a row, […]

Album Reviews

Jackalope Tales “Let Me Tell You a Story” (Independent, 2017)

February 20, 2017 0

‘Let Me Tell You a Story’ is the second full-length album from the Sheffield based folk trio Jackalope Tales. It is comprised of three previously released EPs plus a couple of bonus tracks, the band mainly performing […]

Videos

Video: David Berkeley “Beside the Shuttered Doors”

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The eerie, empty streets of New York reinforce the prayer-like quality of this delicate new single from David Berkeley.  The powerful fan-made video was created by Ehud Lazin, using iPhone photographs taken during the pandemic.  The […]

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