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Elexa Dawson “Mother” – Listen

November 23, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
Elexa Dawson is a singer from the Flint Hills of Kansas, and ‘Mother‘ is her new single taken from her 2019 album ‘Music is Medicine‘.  It’s a song that is inspired, she explains, “by the earth […]
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Video Premiere: Ren Lawton “Today Today Tomorrow”

November 23, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
Beginning with a bright strum, the new single from Ren Lawton then draws the listener in with his delightfully warm, melodic vocal.  As the song builds with a shuffling, foot-tapping rhythm, layers of keys and trumpets […]
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Houndmouth “Good For You”

November 22, 2021 Lyndon Bolton 1
Alt-folk novels. ‘Good For You’, the fourth studio album from Indiana-based Houndmouth has a deep reflective feel, far removed from the fast-paced indie of a decade ago. Contributors are obviously several line-up changes as well as […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Nancy Dupree “What do I Have?”

November 22, 2021 Richard Phillips 0
Lucinda Williams, the focus of last week’s Chain Gang released her debut album,‘Ramblin’ on My Mind’ in 1979 for Folkways Records. The label, founded in 1948, recorded an eclectic mix of contemporary and traditional music from […]
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Grapevine Springs “The Dark Sea”

November 22, 2021 Rick Bayles 0
EP that doesn’t offer quite enough. Working under the name Grapevine Springs, Norwegian musician Jon Ivar Stegarud has released this five-track EP, and it’s an intriguing recording. The Nordic take on Americana has become quite a […]

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Something for the weekend: Mary Chapin Carpenter & the Mountain Goats “Put the Message in the Box”

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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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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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The Wandering Hearts announce UK autumn tour

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Following the success of their debut album ‘Wild Silence’ and an all important appearance on the Andrew Marr show without sneakily changing any lyrics, Americana’s answer to the New Main Street Singers, The Wandering Hearts, have […]
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Daddy Long Legs, Rough Trade East, London, 16th May 2019

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When a well-respected music fan informs you that the best band at last year’s Red Rooster Festival are performing an in-store at London’s Rough Trade East you know it’s got to be worth checking out. Over […]
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Richard Thompson “Acoustic Classics II” (Proper Records, 2017)

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Richard Thompson has something of a reputation as a perfectionist, and this trait caused him, a couple of years back, to review his available acoustic recordings with a critical ear.  Mostly consisting of acoustic spots or […]

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