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Jim Clements “Not a Lot of Blood” – Listen

September 18, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Every five years or so, Jim Clements emerges to drop a collection of literate, witty, surreal, gut-wrenching songs, before disappearing again into the shadows. A songwriter’s songwriter in the tradition of Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave, his songs have earned him […]

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Nathan Bell “Loves Bone and Stars, Love’s Bone and Stars” / “Er Gwaetha Pawb a Phopeth” (Angry Stick Recording Company 2018)

September 18, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0

Nathan Bell is a working man who now more often than not makes albums. This is the fourth album of the ‘Family Man’ series and is a series of reflective acoustic ruminations on a life being […]

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David Ramirez, The Borderline, London, 7th September 2018

September 18, 2018 Mark Underwood 1

David Ramirez is over on a short four night tour of the UK to promote his latest album on the Thirty Tigers label, ‘We’re Not Going Anywhere.’ Playing to a fairly packed Borderline crowd it’s his […]

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Americana UK is looking for a gig guide editor

September 18, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

So here’s the thing. There isn’t really a dedicated gig guide for americana at the moment in the UK – there are some excellent gig guides which have a lot of americana in them, but nothing that’s […]

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Amos Lee “My New Moon” (Dualtone Records, 2018)

September 18, 2018 Steven Howlett 0

‘My New Moon’ Amos Lee’s seventh full length album (discounting the 2015 ‘Live at Red Rocks’ release with The Colorado Symphony) on which he continues to blend soul and jazz on a pallet of 1970s style […]

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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 […]

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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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Ash & Eric have an album coming – it’s called ‘Sure’ and is released on the 6th of May. It’s their debut – and it’s also their third album as the duo have put out two […]

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Video: Steve Earle “House Of Strombo”

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Something a bit different here, a twenty-three minute solo acoustic set from the great Steve Earle that includes Copperhead Road, Guitar Town and the Allman’s Midnight Rider.  Essential viewing.

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Wilderado “In Between” – neither here nor yet there

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Wilderado must have a great affection for this song – it first appeared as a single, emerging from the sessions for the band’s second album.  Quick on the heels of that release came a live version […]

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