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Ed Sweeney & Cathy Clasper-Torch “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” – that’s folk guitar

March 30, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

The quiet ones’ ‘White Album‘ classic is here re-imagined as a gentle acoustic guitar and fiddle instrumental featuring the guitar playing of Ed Sweeney and (yes you’ve guessed it) the fiddle playing of Cathy Clasper-Torch. She […]

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Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves “Hurricane Clarice”

March 30, 2022 Rich Orpin 0

Accomplished roots duo evoke the Carter family on matrilineal inspired album ‘Hurricane Clarice’ – the new album from Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves – is a collection of fiddle and banjo led roots songs, many […]

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The Infamous Stringdusters “Toward The Fray”

March 30, 2022 Darren Lumbroso 0

A steely take on the world by Grammy winning, progressive, bluegrass band. The cover of The Infamous Stringdusters’ latest studio album, ‘Toward The Fray’, features an image of a young girl clutching a teddy bear. She’s […]

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Sounds from beyond the shed – Week 51

March 30, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0

Believe it or not Easter Hols are coming  Thank f**k for that. Covid numbers are at an all time high, spend more lessons covering for absent colleagues or uploading work for isolating students than I do […]

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Multimedia (Book/Music) review –  Darden Smith “Western Skies”

March 30, 2022 Rick Bayles 0

A Multi-Media release that combines photography, lyrics, essays and songs to paint a bigger picture. Back in 1989, I stumbled across a very interesting album. “Evidence” saw The Bible’s Boo Hewerdine teamed with a young Texan […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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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

February 9, 2026 0

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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Golden Bear want to take you on a journey across the band’s home state of Texas. As implied by the title, the album is declared as a love letter to the lone star state. Recorded during […]

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Gillian Welch’s Grammy nominated “All The Good Times” to be released on CD and vinyl

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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings have confirmed that their Grammy nominated ‘All The Good Times’, a new collection of ten acoustic covers recorded at home on a reel-to-reel, will be available on CD on March 5th […]

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Listen to Jason Isbell cover Metallica’s “Sad But True”

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Last week saw Metallica reveal details of a huge 30th-anniversary celebration of their seminal ‘The Black Album’ with a big, remastered box set, as well as a tribute album called ‘The Metallica Blacklist’ which features 53 […]

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