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Curse Of Lono + John Murry, The Blue Arrow, Glasgow, 12th October 2019

October 21, 2019 Paul Kerr 1
It’s getting so that Curse Of Lono’s popularity has to push them into larger venues in the very near future. Over a short course they have captured the attention of Bob Harris (who awarded them the […]
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David Latto “Show Me How To Feel” (Independent, 2019)

October 21, 2019 Martin Johnson 0
David Latto is an exponent of Scottish Americana whose first album, ‘3000 Miles from Nashville’, was released in 2010. He then released a number of albums with the David Latto Band winning praise for his warm […]
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Tim Grimm “Heart Land Again” (Cavalier, 2019)

October 21, 2019 Alasdair Fotheringham 0
‘Heart Land Again’ is Tim Grimm’s reworking of his debut album ‘Heart Land’, published in 1999 and inspired by the singer-songwriter’s life-changing move from Los Angeles to an 80-acre farm in rural Indiana. Featuring two new […]
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Video Premiere: The Tillers “Tecumseh On The Battlefield”

October 21, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0
Here’s something good from Cincinnati outfit The Tillers, taken from their ‘Hand On The Plow’ album.  This is a band that knows its Americana and can play it superbly.  They’re on tour in the UK in […]
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Christy Moore has new Album on the way – listen now to “Hurt”

October 21, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
Fifty years is no short time in music, and yet that’s what Christy Moore is notching up this year.  By way of celebration of a life in music he’ll be releasing a new album ‘Magic Nights‘ […]

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Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage”

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A memorable change in direction in this celebration of rural Celtic communities. Leeroy Stagger, born and raised in rural Vancouver Island before moving to southern Alberta, is a prolific artist. Pilgrimage is his thirteenth studio album, […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are”

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This song is on Sheryl Crow’s Wildflower album, released in 2005 to lukewarm critical response. It was a low-key collection of songs – no All I Wanna Do or Soak Up the Sun among them – […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

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Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]

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James Deely has been playing music for years, first along the Jersey shore, then South Florida, then Los Angeles, and then this year via a tour of Ireland. He’s just released his ninth record “Songs from […]

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