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Tony Harrah Blues “Sweet Lucinda” – Listen

June 25, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Sweet Lucinda‘ is the lead single from Tony Harrah’s new album ‘Unicorns‘, and focuses on farming desperation.  Not just crop failures or droughts – the desperation here is that of separating from a wife, the pointlessness […]

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Video: Union Duke “Ladidadida”

June 25, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

The new single from Canada’s Union Duke is a fine soulful and twangy song.  It’s fun too.  We liked their latest album “Golden Days” a lot too.

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The Love Sprockets “Chickadee” (Independent, 2019)

June 24, 2019 Louie Joe 0

The Love Sprockets are a folk duet from Colorado, comprising husband and wife Jahnavi Newsom and Addison Rice, both singing and playing a plethora of instruments. Their second album ‘Chickadee’ is named after their daughter, who […]

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Peter Bruntnell “King of Madrid” (Domestico, 2019)

June 24, 2019 Alasdair Fotheringham 2

Flicking through a back catalogue of reviews of Peter Bruntnell albums – and ‘King of Madrid’ is his tenth – a hefty proportion are seemingly dedicated to dreaming up new ways of insisting that the Devon-based […]

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Track Premiere: Western States “Duke”

June 24, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

The band Western States formed in St Louis, the great confluence of American music – everything travelled to St Louis along the Mississippi and the Missouri  and that includes every strand of music.  St. Louis is […]

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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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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Live Review: Jerry Joseph + Ella Spencer, The John Peel Centre, Stowmarket – 12th October 2025

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Jerry Joseph can be many things – performer, politician, raconteur. Tonight, he rocked. Tonight, the fire was burning very brightly. Joseph is amazing to see live – full of energy, full of stories and full of […]

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Lena Laki is an indie folk singer-songwriter based in London.  Her Debut EP Take Me With is out now and has received acclaim from media. Gigslutz made her the Discovery of the Week and hailing Lena as […]

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Head Over the Hill this August Bank Holiday

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One novel way to spend the August Bank Holiday Monday is to head to the inaugural ‘Over the Hill’ festival at Cogges Manor farm. With a very strong focus on UK Americana and roots music, Over […]

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