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Video: Arkells “Years in the Making”

March 13, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0
Here is an uplifting video to end your week!  This is the first single from Arkells since their 2018 album, ‘Rally Cry’, won a Juno Award.  It’s music to move to!  The band say: “You never […]
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El Misti “El Misti” (Independent, 2020)

March 13, 2020 Keith Hargreaves 0
Much of the debut album from El Misti sounds as if it springs from a well sunk into the ground deep in the redwood forests of California or the scrublands outside Austin, Texas not the hinterlands […]
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Pick of the Political Pops: Townes Van Zandt “Waiting Round To Die”

March 13, 2020 Paul Villers 0
This week down in the bunker we have been ruminating on the possibility that we are in some sort of ‘end of days’ scenario. Every time we put on our cathode ray 14” black and white […]
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Another one bites the dust – C2C 2020 postponed

March 13, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0
We are and remain an americana site but realise that for many of our readers big hat/bro/mo country music is also a thing so it’ll be a disappointment to many that the UK’s biggest country music […]
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Cash Back In Fife, Woodside Hotel, Aberdour, Fife, 6th – 8th March 2020

March 13, 2020 Paul Kerr 0
A new addition to the Scottish music scene, Cash Back In Fife is a weekend of music dedicated to the memory of Johnny Cash and in particular, Cash’s delight at discovering he had ancestors who had […]

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Interview: Tinsley Ellis brings the good word acoustically nowadays

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In 2025, Tinsley Ellis returned to the deep roots of the blues after the success of his previous album, Naked Truth (Alligator Records, 2024). There are many different styles of playing wrapped up in his music, […]

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