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Video: Passenger “Why Can’t I Change”

June 18, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

This is the second song to be released from Passenger’s new album Runaway.  It has a distinct country flavour and is quite gorgeous.

Previews

The Americans (nice ones) arrive in UK for dates next week

June 15, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

We leave you this weekend dear reader with news that Los Angeles quartet The Americans are returning to Europe for a series of shows this summer including some high profile support slots in the UK with Eric Clapton at BST […]

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Willie Nelson on border separations: “Christians everywhere should be up in arms”

June 15, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

If you forget the glimmer of hope from earlier in the week (which was not without its humour), it’s been another depressing week for the US and Willie Nelson has something to say about it. RS […]

Album Reviews

Luke Tuchscherer “Pieces” (Clubhouse, 2018)

June 15, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

Once of Bedford and The Whybirds, now of New York and with his band the Penny Dreadfuls), Luke Tuchscherer has cooked up a gloriously unholy racket on his third album. Full of the sort of muscular […]

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Pick of the Political Pops: Wilbert Harrison “Let’s Stick Together”

June 15, 2018 Paul Villers 0

This week we have noted with a strange combination of amusement and disbelief that the UK’s negotiating strategy regarding Brexit (yep – that again) continues to consist mainly of our glorious leaders throwing their toys out […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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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 […]

Behind the Songs

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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Classic Clips: Mary Chapin Carpenter “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” – Live at the 1993 CMA Awards

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Ah Mary. Was it really almost 30 years ago? A career bursting with high points and one that has seen her move further and further away from the increasingly narrow field of vision that is the […]

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Continental Shift: 1. Austria

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Rick Bayles’ new series takes a fortnightly look at Americana music’s influence and representation in continental Europe. Music based on roots music associated with America has become increasingly popular in recent years and has spread to […]

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