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Something for the weekend: Plains “Problem With It”

July 29, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it for us for another week dear reader. Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson have teamed up for a new collaborative album under the moniker Plains – it’s called ‘I Walked With You A […]

Tracks

Gordie “Crazylegs” MacKeeman “All Around The Kitchen” – fiddle driven folk

July 29, 2022 Jonathan Aird 1

Gordie “Crazylegs” MacKeeman has recorded a two volume album release of songs that’s called ‘Folk For Little Folk’. It was a project that came to life over the pandemic when MacKeeman became more acutely aware of […]

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Classic Clips: Son Volt “Tear Stained Eye”, Austin City Limits, 1996

July 29, 2022 Jonathan Smith 0

This song has a significant amount of devotees already, and remains a cult favourite. Tucked away on Son Volt’s first album ‘Trace’, the song has a simplicity of form, but it also somehow transcends everything else […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: The Chapin Sisters + The Ocelots, Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington – July 21st, 2022

July 29, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 0

Has it really been over a decade since The Chapin Sisters last toured the UK? That made it all the more pleasing to reconnect with their unique harmonies that weave together gentle strands of Appalachian, folk, […]

Album Reviews

Multimedia Review: Mat Callahan “Songs of Slavery and Emancipation”

July 29, 2022 Rick Bayles 0

Books Editor Rick Bayles writes – Songs of ‘Slavery and Emancipation’ is the last project our sadly departed colleague, Gordon Sharpe, took on for review. His sudden and unexpected death meant that he never got to […]

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Eric Bibb “Ridin'”

March 23, 2023 0

‘Ridin’’ is a strong and moving record that will reveal and reward more on repeated plays. Following 2021’s ‘Dear America’, Eric Bibb returns with his new album ‘Ridin’’.  The Stockholm-based expatriate American revisits his family’s activism […]

Album Reviews

Reg Meuross “Stolen from God”

March 23, 2023 0

A stunning and important work of historical research set to some of the best folk tunes you’ll hear this year. This is a project that has been in the planning since 2018. Meuross says of it: […]

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Herman Dune “The Portable Herman Dune Vol. 2”

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David Ivar’s second helping of re-imagined recordings from his back catalogue continues to deliver. Back in September of last year David Ivar, the artist that is Herman Dune, released the first of which will be a […]

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The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit + His Lordship, O2 Apollo, Manchester – 18th November 2022

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AUK’s Clint West sees Jason Isbell complete a journey from small venue troubadour to the first modern americana superstar. On November 25th 2013 Jason Isbell played at Manchester’s Ruby Lounge in support of his newly released […]

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Eamon McGrath “Fireworks” – explosions in the sky

Tracks
March 23, 2023 0

Eamon McGrath finds himself tongue-tied on his most recent single, taken from the album ‘A Dizzying Lust’ which is released on March 31st.  It’s a paradoxical situation though as he describes having “most of the English […]

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Classic Americana Albums: Great Speckled Bird “Great Speckled Bird”

Classic Americana Albums
March 23, 2023 0

Until the ‘Festival Express’ movie was finally released on DVD in 2004, Ian and Sylvia Tyson’s band, Great Speckled Bird, had been an act known mainly by collectors and as the group Buddy Cage left to […]

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Eric Bibb “Ridin'”

Album Reviews
March 23, 2023 0

‘Ridin’’ is a strong and moving record that will reveal and reward more on repeated plays. Following 2021’s ‘Dear America’, Eric Bibb returns with his new album ‘Ridin’’.  The Stockholm-based expatriate American revisits his family’s activism […]

Amanda Shires announces 2023 UK dates

News
March 23, 2023 0

Having recently performed at the C2C Country2Country Festival in London, singer-songwriter/violinist Amanda Shires has announced a UK/European tour in June. The tour will also include performances at Black Deer Festival and Azkena Rock in Spain. You […]

The First Time: Tim Martin – The Boomtown Rats Colston Hall, Bristol 28th June1978

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March 23, 2023 0

By the summer of 1978 the sting had largely gone out of punk if the cool bits of the music press were to be believed. However, a bunch of 14-year-olds in the suburbs of Bristol hadn’t […]

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