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Rick Shea announces UK solo tour

April 29, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Veteran California-based folk-Americana singer-songwriter and sideman of long repute Rich Shea has announced a May-June Ireland & UK solo tour, in support of his latest album ‘The Town Where I Live’. Dave Alvin said of Shea: […]

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Video Premiere: Bob Hillman “You’re Off The Rails”

April 29, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

From his new album “Some Of Us Are Free, Some Of Us Are Lost?”, out now, this is California man Bob Hillman delivering a hooky slice of rootsy rock that will improve your day.

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Neil Young announces new live album – Listen

April 29, 2019 Mark Whitfield 1

Neil Young has announced the release of a new live album from his archives, called ‘Tuscaloosa’. The album was originally recorded on February 5th, 1973 at the University of Alabama, and heralds from a particular Neil […]

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Hannah Aldridge + The Goat Roper Rodeo Band, The Half Moon, Putney, London, 23rd April 2019

April 29, 2019 Mark Underwood 0

When Hannah Aldridge played at the Lexington in London last year it was to perform a show that was in the style of the Grand Ole Opry, with a selection of her favourite musical friends encouraged […]

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W.C. Beck “The Long Way Home” – Listen

April 29, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

W.C. Beck’s new album is ‘First Flight‘, and it really isn’t as it’s his ninth album.  That’s a little confusing, but there’s no confusion in his music, as represented by the first single ‘The Long Way […]

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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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By no means an easy listen, this is an unsettling, dark, emotional yet enjoyable offering; it demands your concentration but rewards your effort. Danny Kiranos is professionally known as Amigo the Devil. The son of a […]

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One of the stars of the folk scene, Seth Lakeman remains for many synonymous with thumping beats, high volume and a driving, pin your ears back sound that lacks subtlety.  But this is to do him […]

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