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Track Premiere: Creature Comfort “Light Boy”

June 2, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Creature Comfort are a Nashville based band, who released their second album ‘Home Team‘ last October.  It was an album that focused on coming of age – and all the shades of light and dark that […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Kevin Daniel “Don’t See the Light”

June 2, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

Visually and musically, this is one of those videos that just makes you smile.  The sound is bright and layered with Kyle Snuffer’s fabulous baritone saxophone and Alex Bradley’s triumphant trumpet providing upbeat sonic joy.  However, […]

Interviews

Interview: D. L. Rossi on how cancer, divorce and depression have aided his songwriting

June 1, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

How personal tragedy can help  produce music that sounds uplifting. While D. L. Rossi’s musical path had taken him to Nashville that doesn’t mean his story is automatically similar to the many other aspiring singer-songwriters making […]

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A Night to Remember: Lord Huron & Samantha Crain, Crossing Border Festival, The Hague – November 13th, 2015

June 1, 2021 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

Crossing Border Festival is a cultural institution in both The Hague and The Netherlands itself. This multicultural festival has been going on since 1993 and has covered everything from any form of modern music to literature, […]

Album Reviews

Michael Hays “Red Willow”

June 1, 2021 Paul Kerr 2

A heady brew of cosmic country and post-rock ambience. Originally from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Michael Hays has made his home in Austin, Texas and LA over the years with a quirky line in jobs (working in a […]

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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 […]

Interviews

Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

February 12, 2026 1

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 […]

Behind the Songs

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

February 10, 2026 0

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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Essentials: Top 10 Shawn Colvin Songs

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Shawn Colvin’s 2012 memoir ‘Diamond In The Rough’ (published by William Morrow) is a searingly honest account of the singer/songwriter’s struggle with personal relationships, mental health issues, depression, anxiety and alcoholism. It explains long gaps between […]

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Something for the (long) weekend: Chris Stapleton “Starting Over”

August 28, 2020 0

Another week flies by and so we leave you this week dear reader with something to warm your cockles over the bank holiday weekend. Chris Staplegun won the Americana Association’s artist of the year award back […]

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Celtic Connections kicks off this week

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Glasgow’s annual celebration of roots and traditional music from around the globe opens for business this Thursday and then proceeds for the next three weeks with over 300 events scheduled to take place. Always a highlight […]

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