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Tommy Emmanuel + Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo, Union Chapel London, 24th May 2018

May 30, 2018 David Fox 0

Islington’s Union Chapel is perhaps the favourite venue of many of the musicians who perform in London. It seats around a thousand people (on very hard Church pews admittedly)  but the reward for the gig goer […]

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Video: The Tillers “River Boat Dishwashin’ Song”

May 30, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

Another excellent slice of catchy rootsy Americana from Cincinnatti’s  Tillers, taken from their latest eponymous album.

Album Reviews

Ciara O’Neill “Arrow” (Independent, 2018)

May 29, 2018 Steven Howlett 0

‘Arrow,’ the second album from the Ciara O’Neill, a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from  Portadown, Northern Ireland really is quite a special record. There’s no doubting Ciara’s origins; her voice has that Celtic folk inflexion that […]

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Robyn Hitchcock, Oran Mor, Glasgow, 24th May 2018

May 29, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

I don’t know if Brian Ferry’s ears were burning the other night but if so it was probably because he received several mentions from Robyn Hitchcock in his fantastical  and  extremely funny in between song patter […]

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Nils Lofgren, Cambridge Corn Exchange, Cambridge 24th May 2018

May 29, 2018 Jonathan Aird 1

Nils Lofgren near-solo – he’s accompanied tonight by multi-instrumentalist Gregg Varlotta – is a very different thing from what one might imagine from his “day job”. Shortly before heading off for his UK tour celebrating fifty […]

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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

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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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Neil Young “Hitchhiker” (Reprise 2017)

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This is truly lost treasure indeed. In the midst of a purple patch (that most artists never see) in the year 1976 Neil Young went into the studio with his drug buddy producer David Briggs. They […]

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Merival “Lesson” (Merival Records, 2019)

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From Toronto comes the debut album from Merival, aka Anna Horvath, though to say album is a bit of a stretch at less than 25 minutes, with some of the 8 tracks being barely songs. Horvath […]

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Track Premiere : Bee Appleseed & The Cosmic Family “21st Century Poet”

July 16, 2018 0

Bee Appleseed & The Cosmic Family make a rich sound that blends together rock, folk influences and a healthy portion of American soul.  On this track, from upcoming on the 20th July album ‘Backpacker Blues‘ the […]

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