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Video: The Wandering Hearts “Gold”

April 14, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
With a typically excellent vocal performance and soaring chorus, The Wandering Hearts bring you their latest single, ‘Gold’.  The song explores the idea that when you’re wounded and broken after challenging times, the scars will fade […]
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The Wallflowers announce first new album in a decade

April 14, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0
The Wallflowers, the band longtime fronted by Jakob Dylan, have announced the release of ‘Exit Wounds’ on July 9th via New West Records. The 10-song set is their first album in nearly a decade – it […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 14

April 14, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 3
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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Emily Moment “The Party’s Over”

April 14, 2021 Sean Hannam 0
So-so country, folk and blues-rock debut from this transatlantic troubadour – choose your Moment carefully. London-based, American singer-songwriter Emily Moment says her debut full-length solo album, ‘The Party’s Over’, is about hitting a wall and coping […]
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Eliza Shaddad “Blossom” – Listen

April 14, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
‘Blossom‘ was recently released by Sudanese-Scottish artist Eliza Shaddad, and it’s a timely song that captures the rapture of the awakening of new growth that is the annual miracle of Spring.  There’s an echo, perhaps, of […]

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Abigail Lapell announces new album “Shadow Child” out in May

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Award-winning Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell has announced her upcoming new album Shadow Child, an album about motherhood whose nine songs each represent a month of gestation, will be released May 8th via Outside Music. Lapell has […]
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Michael Weston King “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

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Tragedy turned into thoughtful, considered, often uplifting songwriting. At the end of 2024, Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish shared their first artistic reactions to the loss of their granddaughter Bebe King, at Southport with a […]
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Preview: Joe Martin to release new record and play spring and autumn UK tours

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Singer-songwriter and AUK Twang Factor alumnus Joe Martin has announced the release of his second studio album, Alone in Valentine, via North Star Records on 17th April 2026, along with dates for UK tours in April […]

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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

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A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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JP Harris is coming to the UK for only the second time since starting out in the music business around 10 years ago. Now with a new album to promote, ‘Sometimes Dogs Bark At Nothing,’  Nashville-based […]
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Prinz Grizzley “To My Green Mountains Home” (DoWhWa Records, 2020)

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Egg, Austria isn’t someplace that you would expect to be the launchpad for an album that sounds like it was born somewhere exactly halfway between Memphis and Nashville. But geography isn’t the only reason that listeners […]

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