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Tom West “I’m Livin’!”

June 15, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

New age singer-songwriter with a set of pleasant enough songs which ultimately fail to catch on fire Tom West is an Australian singer-songwriter who has apparently had a bit of a buzz around him in the […]

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Travis Linville “I’m Still Here”

June 15, 2021 Richard Phillips 0

Musical simpatico creates a variety of tonal landscapes. Seeing the world through the eyes of others can always profit an artist. Think of the producer who has written songs, the studio engineer who has honed their […]

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Los Lobos have new album ready to go

June 15, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

It would be stretching credulity beyond breaking point to conceive of the idea that anyone reading this present music website does not know who Los Lobos are.  Forty eight years into their career the band return […]

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Black Deer 2021 is cancelled – another casualty of our government’s woeful handling of the pandemic

June 15, 2021 Mark Whitfield 3

So the not entirely unexpected news came last night that Black Deer, a festival now synonymous with the heart of Americana music in the UK, has been cancelled – for the second year in a row, […]

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Francesca Brown “Blue Coyote Moon” – Listen

June 15, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Californian singer-songwriter Francesca Brown had a busy 2020.  Recording a total of three musical projecs, with today’s song coming from the third of these the EP ‘Pandemania.‘  As may be guessable from the Eps cover image, […]

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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”

February 17, 2026 0

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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Christian Parker is a brave man, of that we can be certain, because it’s either a brave or a foolhardy man that decides to pay homage to The Byrds’ version of Dylan’s song – and that […]

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Classic Americana Albums: Dylan LeBlanc “Renegade”

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Dylan LeBlanc came racing out of the traps with a very fine self-produced debut album in 2010 (‘Pauper’s Field’) when he was just 20 years old. The album caught fire, due to its fine writing and […]

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Mike Stocksdale “Gone Gone Gone” – time relentlessly marches on

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On today’s slice of steadily rocking Americana Mike Stocksdale reflects on the passage of time and the relentless loss of heroes, singing “We lost Charlie Watts today / Paul McCartney sure looked sad but he wouldn’t […]

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