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Matt Patershuk “Same As I Have Ever Been” (Black Hen Music 2017)

September 19, 2017 Mark Nenadic 0

The back cover portrait photo for Matt Patershuk’s new album may make you recoil in horror at the super clichéd Americana-ness on display. Farmyard, haystack, dogs, Telecaster, beard and hat. All are squeezed in. Fear not […]

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Jon C Butler “Universal Stranger” (Strataville, 2017)

September 19, 2017 David Stevenson 0

Jon C Butler has had a lengthy career with his band Diesel Park West most noted for their critically acclaimed debut ‘Shakespeare Alabama’ released some 25 years ago. His newest output and debut solo album ‘Universal […]

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Interview: Steve Earle

September 19, 2017 Iain Patience 0

Long regarded as one of Nashville’s most important songwriters, Steve Earle chats about new album, Waylon and Guy Clark with Americana UK’s Iain Patience: If there’s anyone out there in music land who might truly be […]

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RS Country: “The 20 best things we saw at Americanafest 2017”

September 19, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Nice little piece up on RS Country this morning which lists the 20 best things they saw at the 18th annual Americana Music Festival & Conference which took place in Nashville last week.  They say: “The […]

Tracks

The Deportees – “A Single Truth” – Listen

September 19, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

The Deportees are an Aberdeen based band who look to the likes of Teenage Fanclub, The Waterboys, and Wilco as their musical inspirations.  Over three years in the making, their debut album The Birth of Industry is out […]

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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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And now is as good a time as any to remind ourselves what comment we made on Kaia Kater back in 2019: “Kaia Kater is an incredibly poised performer, and her songs are complicated and subtle, […]

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Since the start of the pandemic and the subsequent loss of regular, live music, we have been bringing you a series of ‘mini-gigs’, helping fabulous artists to continue to connect with their audience.  As the music […]

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Gawain And The Green Knight “Birds And Wine” – Is this lust that you’re feeling?

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Gawain and the Green Knight we have already established make some memorable psych-folk.  There’s a dreaminess to some of their songs – but they also have a boastful side.  Assuming that ‘Birds and Wine‘ isn’t actually […]

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