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Cowboy Junkies reckoning scheduled for July

May 3, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Cowboy Junkies will release their new album ‘All That Reckoning’, the band’s first new recording since 2012’s ‘The Wilderness’ on July 13 via Proper Records, and they’ve also announced 3 UK dates to support it in […]

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Cosmos Sunshine “Letdown” – Listen

May 3, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

If you’re born on a hippy commune on the Connecticut River then there’s a good chance you’ll end up with a distinctive name like Cosmos Sunshine Heidtmann.  Wisely dropping the Heidtmann, Cosmos Sunshine makes big rolling […]

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Callaghan, Bush Hall, London, 26th April 2018

May 3, 2018 David Fox 0

Bush Hall is one of those milestone venues for many artists when they are building their careers as it is just the right size to test whether an act can headline their own London show. With […]

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Ray Davies continues his journey through Americana

May 3, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

The quintessential English songwriter Ray Davies has had a long fascination with America, and the USA in particular.  His 2013 autobiography was entitled “Americana,” and he went on to release an album of the same name […]

Live Reviews

Lilly Hiatt, Nell’s Jazz and Blues, West Kensington London, 25th April 2018

May 3, 2018 Cary Gee 0

It would be an understatement to describe Lilly Hiatt’s introduction to London as understated. But when you are courageous enough to hang yourself out to dry, literally and metaphorically, in full view of the audience, you […]

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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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Eli Winter is a guitarist from Chicago who is as happy on 6 or 12 strings, and will switch to lap guitars in the blink of an eye.  His new album ‘Unbecoming’ sees Winter leading a band […]

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Darling West “Cosmos” – drifting off into the universe

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The awesome Darling West have a new album that will be released on Jansen Records on the 24th of March – it’s called ‘Cosmos’ and so, of course, this is the title track.  We’ve swooned often […]

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We’re going to start this month’s column with an apology. Not for us the way of the tabloids, to bury apologies in some long dusty corner, we screw up, we’re front and centre about it! Friends […]

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