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Max García Conover & The Ballroom Thieves “Mud” – hurting again, as usual

April 13, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Max García Conover is a songwriter from New York. He has toured the US and Europe and releases records both independently and through the Barcelona-based label SonCanciones. In between songs Max García Conover tells stories, and […]

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Video: Sam Shackleton “House Carpenter”

April 13, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Sitting atop Arthur’s Seat with the vast, expansive view of Edinburgh below, Sam Shackleton’s banjo twang and voice ring out over the landscape and across time in this video for the ancient ballad ‘House Carpenter’.  The […]

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Interview: Ray Wylie Hubbard on being an Old Cat and that song

April 12, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

How a group of friends have helped bring Ray Wylie Hubbard’s songs to their biggest audience. Most songwriters can only dream of writing anything approaching a classic song, but some of those who do are not […]

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Discovering… The Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia

April 12, 2022 Martin Johnson 6

To the uninitiated, getting a handle on what the Grateful Dead are all about can seem quite daunting, and this sense of challenge is exacerbated by the fact that their fanbase, the Deadheads, are probably the […]

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Michael Weston King “The Struggle”

April 12, 2022 Tim Martin 0

A singer-songwriter album that showcases sides of King we don’t see in his day job. King is one half of the duo My Darling Clementine, but this is far more of a “Singer-Songwriter” album than their […]

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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 […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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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

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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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From their new album Other People, out on 1 September and supported by a UK tour, comes this poignant and powerful song.  The footage is 8mm film from the 50’s and 60’s from James Walbourne’s family […]

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One of the (few) advantages of the last year has been the chance to fill in the blanks in my musical education. And one of the big blanks was Bob Dylan. How had I managed to […]

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A powerful and emotive song and video from The Young ‘Uns, telling the story of Matthew Ogston, who founded the Naz and Matt Foundation to tackle religious and cultural homophobia following the tragic death of his […]

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