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Video: Jerry Leger “Have You Ever Been Happy”

March 21, 2022 Mike Robbie 0

Leave it to Canadian songwriter, Jerry Leger, to ask an appropriate question of our times, in that simple Canadian way, as an omnipresent pandemic, eastern European war, divisive politics and more fill our collective days with […]

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AUK’s Chain Gang: Will Oldham “Big Balls”

March 21, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

Last week it was Malvina Reynolds and her ‘Little Boxes’. This week it is something opposite – Will Oldham and his ‘Big Balls’. Now, Oldham is one true musical chameleon, from the changing personalities he records […]

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Steve Dawson “Gone, Long Gone”

March 21, 2022 Helen Jones 3

An enjoyable lockdown album from a veteran musician whose new experiment with co-writing has paid off. Nashville transplant and Vancouver native Steve Dawson is a busy man: if he’s not producing music for other roots artists, […]

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Mary Gauthier announces new album out this Summer – new song out now

March 21, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

Mary Gauthier has announced her latest album, ‘Dark Enough to See the Stars‘, will be released on June 3rd on Thirty Tigers. This, her ninth album comes after Grammy-nominated’ Rifles and Rosary Beads‘, the album she […]

Tracks

Track Premiere: Jessye DeSilva “Hibernate”

March 21, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Hibernate‘ is a new song by Boston singer-songwriter Jessye DeSilva, which is taken from their new album ‘Landscapes.‘  It conjures up images of hunkering down and finding a warm and safe space in difficult times – […]

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

February 10, 2026 0

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 […]

Interviews

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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Interview: Elles Bailey on collaboration, her voice, and not taking her story away

February 3, 2026 0

When one says award-winning artist about a singer, Elles Bailey would certainly fall into this category, having been named to an impressive list, including: UK Americana Live Act of the Year, UK Blues Artist of the […]

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After nearly three decades in numerous Louisville, Kentucky bands, Dave Ernst releases his debut solo album, and has got it just right. Short and snappy, with no room for filler, Ernst includes six of his own […]

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