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AUK’s Chain Gang: Malvina Reynolds “Little Boxes”

March 14, 2022 Gordon Sharpe 0
The link to last week’s feature is that of property and housing and, whereas we were contemplating an apparently desirable ocean-front property, this week we are looking at the other end of the market – little […]
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Janis Ian “The Light At The End of the Line”

March 14, 2022 Jonathan Smith 0
Wonderfully rich swan song from legendary songwriter. Janis Ian is a name who will need no introduction here, an artist who forced her way into the male-dominated music business in the late ’60’s/early 70’s, alongside the […]
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Erika Lewis “Loser” – the…err…winner takes it all

March 14, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
Erika Lewis has a wonderful new album ‘A Walk Around the Sun’ out on April 29th, from which ‘Loser‘ is taken.   It’s a classic song of betrayed love: “You said I was your lover, you said […]
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Video Premiere: Luke Winslow-King “Watch Me Change”

March 14, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0
Start your week with the premiere for Luke Winslow-King’s latest single ‘Watch Me Change’.  This is the sort of song that makes you want to move, to tap your feet, to nod your head, to dance; […]
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Something for the weekend: Frank Turner talks about why he’s singing songs for his transgender dad

March 11, 2022 Mark Whitfield 1
We thought dear reader we’d leave you with something a little different this week. Singer-songwriter Frank Turner never got on with his distant and disapproving father. Things got even worse between them when Frank discovered the […]

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

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Abigail Lapell announces new album “Shadow Child” out in May

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Michael Weston King “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

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Classic Clips: Ryan Adams, The Infamous Stringdusters & Nicki Bluhm “Oh My Sweet Carolina” – Steven Colbert Show, 2017

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

March 27, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week, an exciting day for us as we announce full details for our 25 year event which takes place in Liverpool later this year – you can find more […]
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Abigail Lapell announces new album “Shadow Child” out in May

March 27, 2026 0
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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Michael Weston King “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

March 27, 2026 1
Tragedy turned into thoughtful, considered, often uplifting songwriting. At the end of 2024, Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish shared their first artistic reactions to the loss of their granddaughter Bebe King, at Southport with a […]

  • Something for the weekend: Mary Chapin Carpenter & the Mountain Goats “Put the Message in the Box”
  • Abigail Lapell announces new album “Shadow Child” out in May
  • Michael Weston King “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”
  • Preview: Joe Martin to release new record and play spring and autumn UK tours
  • Classic Clips: Ryan Adams, The Infamous Stringdusters & Nicki Bluhm “Oh My Sweet Carolina” – Steven Colbert Show, 2017
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  • Americana 25 festival comes to Liverpool in November with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more!
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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

March 25, 2026 1
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”

March 12, 2026 0
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”

March 11, 2026 2
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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Steve Earle announces new Guy Clark covers album

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Of course Steve Earle actually announced the new album quite some time ago – towards the end of his gigs last year Steve took time out to discuss his plans for a more obviously politically slanted […]
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Video: Cowboy Junkies “Five Years”

March 3, 2022 0
Look out for the new album from Cowboy Junkies, due out on 25th March 2022. ‘Songs of the Recollection’ is something a little different from the revered Canadian quartet.  Fans of the band have always enjoyed […]
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Something for the weekend: Bedouine, Waxahatchee, and Hurray for the Riff Raff “Thirteen” – Listen

September 11, 2020 0
Well that’s it from us for this week dear reader. We leave you with a rather fantastic little cover of Big Star’s ‘Thirteen’ from the wonderful collaboration of Bedouine’s Azniv Korkejian, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, and Hurray […]

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