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King Creosote revisits his love letter to Scotland

March 3, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

March 2020 sees the return of Scottish singer-songwriter Kenny Anderson aka King Creosote’s ‘From Scotland with Love’ project.  A combination of heritage film which features themes of love, loss, war, resistance, emigration, work and play,  ‘From […]

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Cabane “Grande Est La Maison” (Independent, 2020)

March 3, 2020 Lyndon Bolton 0

‘Grande Est La Maison’, is an astounding sweep of orchestral folk/pop that bears similarities to meditation. Though hard to achieve, being in the moment brings about a deep sense of relaxation and calm. Listening to Cabane […]

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Gareth Inkster “Used To It” – Listen

March 3, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Gareth Inkster isn’t lucky in love  – we don’t know if he’s lucky at cards, but there’s a suggestion from ‘Used to it‘ that he’s lucky at pulling a song out of an emotionally bad situation. 

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Video: Basia Bulat “Already Forgiven”

March 3, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Basia Bulat’s ethereal voice is beautiful on ‘Already Forgiven’, the latest single from the soon-to-be released ‘Are You in Love?’, which comes out on 27th March.  The video was shot in lovely natural spaces on film […]

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Classic Americana Compilations “UNCUT Presents: Americana 2004”

March 2, 2020 Jonathan Aird 6

Magazine cover discs come and cover discs go, sometimes there’s a track or two that sparks an interest – I first encountered The Decemberists via a disc from Word magazine, that was a good find. Just […]

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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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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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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

February 9, 2026 0

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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The festivals are all jostling for space at the end of August and beginning of September. Your correspondent filled with optimism and a sense of possibilities finds himself attending two festivals in consecutive weeks if all […]

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American roots music legend Peter Rowan has just been nominated for a 2023 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. The nomination is for his recently released album, ‘Calling You From My Mountain‘, on Rebel Records. The […]

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Taking the sporadic Wednesday afternoon instrumental slot – which we’re definitely not calling ChilledAmericana even in jest – is Northern Irish guitarist Joe Hodgson and his slide heavy composition ‘Till the Last Breath.‘  It was inspired […]

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