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Freedy Johnston “Back On The Road To You”

August 30, 2022 Jonathan Smith 0
Sunny summer sweetness, with just a touch of melancholy. Freedy Johnston has a 30 year music career behind him, during which time he has garnered praise and love from critics and musical peers. He nonetheless remains […]
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Live Review: The Blue Highways + Rich Hardcastle and Evie Rapson, The Town Hall, Kirton In Lindsey – 19th August 2022

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The half hour journey between my home town of Lincoln to the county’s premier Americana venue The Town Hall, Kirton In Lindsey, takes me through the arable countryside, well known for being the breadbasket of the […]
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Bill Scorzari “The Cross Winds Of Kansas”

August 30, 2022 Rick Thorn 0
Consistently interesting, sometimes dark but always uplifting. Bill Scorzari is a New York singer, songwriter and mutli instrumentalist, and ‘The Cross Winds Of Kansas’ is his fourth independently released album. Scorzari became a full-time musician via […]
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Neal Casal to reissue another classic album on vinyl

August 30, 2022 Emily Dongray 0
Neal Casal’s second studio album, ‘Rain, Wind and Speed‘, has been announced for December 2nd reissue on limited edition vinyl via the Neal Casal Music Foundation (NCMF). The 11-song collection initially released in 1996 will be […]
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Taylor Alexander “Hymns For A Hollow Earth”

August 30, 2022 Graeme Tait 0
Nashville based singer-songwriter fails to build on promising debut with sophomore offering. Taylor Alexander burst on to the scene back in 2019 with his debut album, ‘Good Old Fashioned Pain’, delivering a brand of outlaw country […]

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An impressive blues-influenced mixture of laid-back and edgier numbers. Coast of Light is Luke Winslow-King’s ninth album after having debuted with Luke Winslow-King in 2008. It is a bit of an outlier from many of the […]
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Live Review: Beans On Toast + Ruth Lyon + Bassie Gracie, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham – 11th March 2026

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The night opened with Bassie Gracie, a bold spoken word poet grounded in hope, proclaiming that making art can be the remedy to worry. This Celtic-and-proud waif delivered rhythmic anti-racism with barely veiled anger at the […]
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Folk-tinged harmonies and sophisticated indie-pop for turbulent times. Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson are originally from Knoxville, Tennessee – together they make up The Montvales. During their middle school years, the duo started out by busking […]

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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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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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