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Month: January 2022

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Video Premiere: Jack Blackman and the Beautiful Wreck “Still Waiting (For You to Change Your Mind)”

January 31, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0
For many of us, live shows remain a rare experience so we’re delighted to share with you an excellent recording from the Moseley Folk Festival back in the distant summer of 2021.  It’ll make you yearn […]
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Something for the weekend: Keb’ Mo’ “Good To Be (Home Again)”

January 28, 2022 Mark Whitfield 1
Well that’s it for another week dear reader and we leave you with a performance of a new song from Keb’ Mo’ from the Kelly Clarkson Show in the US last week – it’s the title […]
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Classic Clips: The Lone Bellow “You Never Need Nobody” Tiny Desk Concert 2013

January 28, 2022 David Jarman 1
One of the great joys of festivals – remember them? – is finding new bands and artists who’d never crossed your radar, but become fast favourites. And so it was with The Lone Bellow at Cambridge […]
Tracks

Track Premiere: Crash Taylor “Idlewild”

January 28, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
With a burst of melodic folk-rock Crash Taylor begins an examination of his situation and where he might want to go in life.  And it doesn’t seem that things are so bad: “it’s quiet enough that […]
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Ryan Hamilton “1221”

January 28, 2022 Rich Orpin 2
Ryan Hamilton taps into the Fountain of Wayne on power pop collaboration. The power-pop genre and sub-genres that it inspired have a breadth as wide as any in contemporary music. At the grittier, less refined end […]

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Laurelyn Dossett “Believe Me” – here’s the truth looking you in the eye

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Video: Goldschatz “We Got Love”

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For The Sake Of The Song: Rod MacDonald “American Jerusalem”

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The Cousins Project “Child of the Hills”

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Laurelyn Dossett “Believe Me” – here’s the truth looking you in the eye

June 23, 2026 0
If you’re looking for a singer-songwriter whose words and voice sit well within a tradition of honest, straightforward country storytelling, then look no further because it is Laurelyn Dossett that you are looking for. You may […]
Videos

Video: Goldschatz “We Got Love”

June 23, 2026 0
Check out the new video from americana folk duo Goldschatz. Recorded on Körbergasse in Aachen during their 2026 German tour, this busking performance of We Got Love manages to be both public and intimate at the […]
News

Sorcha Richardson set to release her third album in September

June 22, 2026 0
Dublin-born singer-songwriter Sorcha Richardson has returned with the announcement of her new album Draw The Outline, out 11th September via Faction Records. Alongside the album, Richardson has also shared the single Illinois Again. With just two […]

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  • Video: Goldschatz “We Got Love”
  • Sorcha Richardson set to release her third album in September
  • For The Sake Of The Song: Rod MacDonald “American Jerusalem”
  • The Cousins Project “Child of the Hills”
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Video Interview: Susto’s Justin Osbourne on Susto Stringband

June 18, 2026 0
Susto are an American indie band who have managed to build their own following with their individual take on alt-country and americana that reflects the fact that they were formed in Charleston, South Carolina. Justin Osbourne […]
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Interview: Tinsley Ellis brings the good word acoustically nowadays

June 17, 2026 0
In 2025, Tinsley Ellis returned to the deep roots of the blues after the success of his previous album, Naked Truth (Alligator Records, 2024). There are many different styles of playing wrapped up in his music, […]
Interviews

Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

June 11, 2026 2
Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]

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Pick of the Political Pops: The Rascals “People Got To Be Free”

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Intriguing news reached us this week that The Government are planning to introduce some sort of legislation regarding the upholding of free speech in our centres of higher education. There will be some sort of bod […]
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Video: Treetop Flyers “I Knew I’d Find You”

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The latest single from Treetop Flyers, taken from their eponymous album, out on Loose on August 24th.  It’s a beautiful, delicate and soulful piece and we like it a lot.
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Mean Mary & the Contrarys “Hell & Heroes Vol. I”

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Dark tales to virtuoso gothic banjo. Mean Mary James is nothing if not prolific. If you think you’ve just read a review of her latest release, you have: that was ‘Portrait of a Woman’. Barely a […]

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