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Rebecca Turn “Waves EP” (Independent 2018)

March 23, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0

A Porthcawl native, Hurn was plucked from playing local open mic sessions as her reputation was spreading by none other than Pixie Lott showing a canny knack for spotting a talent. A glorious voice, mature beyond […]

Videos

Video: Mary Chapin Carpenter “Quittin’ Time”

March 23, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

This week’s retro slot has something nice to ease you into your weekend.  A live stripped back version of the wonderful Quittin Time by Mary Chapin Carpenter.  Have a good weekend everyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_4wR0Q3wVE

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Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats “Tearing at the Seams” (Stax Records, 2018)

March 22, 2018 Jim Finnie 0

When you think of the good ol’ USA and start to muse on the hotbeds of music over the years, the names of the famous music cities start to drift through the psyche as a misty-eyed […]

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Trampled by Turtles “The Middle” – Listen

March 22, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

The creative bluegrass band named after what would probably be quite a traumatic experience reunited in a Minnesota cabin only a few months back but they’ve already laid down enough tracks for a new studio album […]

Album Reviews

Courtney Marie Andrews “May Your Kindness Remain” (Loose Music, 2018)

March 22, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

‘May Your Kindness Remain’ is a very different album to Courtney Marie Andrews’ previous release ‘Honest Life’, less directly personal and far more sombre. Which is hardly surprising since the last album was driven by the […]

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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

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 […]

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

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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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Sarah Johnson “Volcano” (Independent, 2020)

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Sarah Johnson wrote her first song when she was two and now three decades later, she’s released her first record, a six-song EP called ‘Volcano’.  Based in Dallas, Johnson has written six songs that are very […]

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Video Premiere: Arborist “The Mountain Will Come To You”

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The plan had been to re-record two songs for a double A-side single – with a string accompaniment making them sound significantly different.  And then, like everyone else, Mark McCambridge (a.k.a Arborist) found that Covid had […]

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Curse Of Lono “As I Fell” (Submarine Cat, 2018)

August 23, 2018 0

Although last year’s acclaimed ‘Severed’ was the first album to appear under the Curse Of Lono monicker, frontman Felix Bechtolsheimer points out that this terrific new album in some ways represents a proper debut for the […]

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