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Margo Price releases new live album featuring Emmylou and Sturgill

May 22, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Margo Price has announced the surprise release of a new live album, ‘Perfectly Imperfect at The Ryman’. Out today exclusively on Bandcamp, all proceeds benefit the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund, and while Margo has been working […]

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Prinz Grizzley “Drifting” – Listen

May 22, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Chris Comper looks every inch the mountain man, making his stage moniker of Prinz Grizzley quite appropriate.  True, in his case the mountains are those majestic Austrian peaks, but even so there’s no doubting his Americana […]

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Video: Lisa Akuah “Natural Worrier”

May 22, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Lisa Akuah has a lovely, clear voice and an ear for an engaging melody.  ‘Natural Worrier’ is the newly released single from the Berlin singer-songwriter.  Layers of guitar and cello give depth to this folk ballad […]

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What should I do, Americana UK?

May 21, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Welcome to the second in our semi-regular advice column, which, it seems, might be running on a three weekly basis.  Some problems are complex, and some problems are very straightforward – and this week we have […]

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Classic Americana Albums: Ry Cooder “Into The Purple Valley” (Warner, 1972)

May 21, 2020 David Jarman 0

Ry Cooder has a unique and special place in the Americana realm, his reputation based on his consummate skills on guitar (especially slide, where many rate him among the world’s best) and mandolin, and as an […]

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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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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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The Grahams “The Wild One” – forever, we hope

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The Grahams are marking a decade with a new eponymous album out September 8th which revisits songs from their back catalogue, reshaping and reimagining them through the prism of experience.  It’s a decade which saw a […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 46

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A moment’s reflection. Every week this column spews forth a mixture of outrage, exasperation, ridicule and disbelief pertaining to all aspects of modern education during these current times but I may have missed a very important […]

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Robert Vincent announces new album and UK dates

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Includes some special gigs with the old Lemon Squeezer. Whoop whoop! Liverpool-based Americana singer-songwriter has announced details of a new album “Barriers” which will be released June 21st Via Thirty Tigers and about time too we […]

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