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Luke Tuchscherer “Carousel” (Clubhouse Records, 2019)

October 7, 2019 Jim Finnie 0
It’s a well-worn path.  Artist runs out of ideas and decides to re-hash some old material and produces an album that is at best mediocre and at worst downright boring.  Not in this case though, it’s […]
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Josh Ritter plays NPR Tiny Desk Concert with Amanda Shires And Jason Isbell: Watch

October 7, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
Apologies for completely missing this last week – Josh Ritter played one of NPR’s magical little Tiny Desk concerts last week, as they described it “with the enthusiasm of a young child and the wisdom of […]
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Jared Deck “Bully Pulpit” (Continental Blue Heaven, 2019)

October 7, 2019 Tim Merricks 0
Not many tracks are under the belt before you start to get a good feeling about Jared Deck. He sounds familiar, but that’s because we’re familiar with great music. He sounds a little hard-bitten, until the […]
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Wilco, Albert Hall, Manchester, 27th September 2019

October 7, 2019 Clint West 2
To say that Jeff Tweedy’s band have, over the years, become something of an Americana institution is to put the ‘under’ well and truly into ‘understatement’. Such is the band’s stature that their gigs nowadays might […]
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Track Premiere : Mail The Horse “Pitch And Haw”

October 7, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
New York’s Mail the Horse are all set to release their eponymous album, a move which sees the band shifting gears from their earlier rootsy releases to a more mature outlook on life,.  They are, after […]

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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Whitney K “Ode To The Old Ways” – not cottage core….

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