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Video: Single Girl, Married Girl “Wreck Cut Loose”

October 13, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

The video for ‘Wreck Cut Loose’ is an absolute delight.  Over a powerful beat, the songs builds steadily until it culminates in a powerful conclusion.  “I’ve been listening to old country songs,” sings frontwoman and songwriter Chelsey […]

A Night to Remember

A Night To Remember: Justin Townes Earle and Jubal Lee Young – Blackfriars, Glasgow, 11th October 2007

October 12, 2021 Paul Kerr 1

On a cold but dry autumn evening in Glasgow, a Thursday if I recall correctly, a few hardy souls gathered in a tiny bar basement in Glasgow to see a show billed as The Sons Of […]

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John Wort Hannam “Long Haul”

October 12, 2021 Tim Martin 0

Words to cherish and music that will grow on you, if you give it some time. John Wort Hannam says of his new album; ““Long Haul is a reflection on my life up to this point, […]

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Janet Batch “Got No Idea” – will you tell me why?

October 12, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Janet Batch has man troubles – and not even the good sort.  As she explains “I get up at six and I work ’til six at night and all you do is bitch if your dinner […]

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Doc Carter “High Tide for Low Times”

October 12, 2021 Jonathan Smith 0

Catchy Americana debut by Texan songwriter. Doc Carter has been releasing single tracks and E.P’s for a few years now, but “High Tide for Low Times” represents his debut album. Stylistically, it is the absolute epitome […]

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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 […]

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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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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‘Doldrums’ is the new album by Simon Patrick Kerr, and it aptly couldn’t come at a better time what with the absolute state of parliament this week – for the new record Kerr forgoes the rowdy psych-rock […]

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