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The View From Across La Manche #12 – From our own correspondent

March 1, 2023 Rick Bayles 0
Plus ça change… Quite a contrast between last month’s featured article photo and this month’s! It seems like it was full on winter only yesterday and now spring is making a definite attempt to show up. […]
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Van Morrison tickets for London Summer show on sale this Friday

March 1, 2023 Emily Dongray 0
The legend that is Van Morrison has announced a show at the Royal Albert Hall on June 28th, 2023. This show will include old favourites and songs from his new album ‘Moving On Skiffle’. Tickets go […]
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Dari Bay “Longest Day of the Year”

March 1, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0
Instantly memorable pop grunge Americana mix. Dari Bay is a project built by Vermont resident Zachary James. He cites broad influences ranging from Neil Young to Scottish Indie band The Pastels, Pavement to Wilco. “Longest Day […]
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The Wood Brothers “Pilgrim” – a long way from my home

March 1, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
‘Pilgrim‘ is the first single and opening track from The Wood Brothers’ latest album ‘Heart is the Hero‘, which is released on April 14th on Honey Jar/Thirty Tigers.  The Wood Brothers – Oliver and Chris Wood, along with Jano […]
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Video Premiere: Nicholas Johnson “Middle of Nowhere, Ohio”

March 1, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
Nicholas Johnson takes us on a visually charming, animated tour of Ohio in his latest single.  The video, created by Katie Ann Marks is colourful and brilliantly put together but Johnsons’ words are a stark contrast, […]

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Something for the weekend: Starpainter “I Found a River”

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Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new video for a new song by Alberta-based sextet Starpainter which YES I KNOW we ran last week, but Jon […]
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Kris Drever “Doing This For Love”

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Meditations on the unglamorous, but with melodic hooks, from Scottish folk-award winner Anyone coming to this album for their first experience of Kris Drever may well be expecting something fairly traditional in light of his many […]
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Classic Clips: Jesse Colin Young “Darkness Darkness” – All Star Jam, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, 1984

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Jesse Colin Young passed away just over a year ago, on the 16th of March, at the age of eighty-three. Born Perry Miller and raised in Queens, New York, to musical parents, Young initially found fame […]

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Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

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Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]
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Interview: Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is thriving

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With influences in blues, jazz and country, Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is actually thriving on their fifth album, Monster Swan (2025). Based in Somerset, England, Beth Packer’s distinctive, emotive vocals, coupled with her evocative lyrics, create […]
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Interview: Greg Loftus – As both musician and carpenter, he would like to knock on wood

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Greg Loftus comes from the town of Bourne, not far from the bridge that connects Massachusetts to Cape Cod. It is there that he practices woodworking, operates a club in nearby Falmouth and makes rock music […]

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The first single from James Cook’s second album “Texican Velvet” sees the Texas/Oklahoma music scene fixture bring his raw and honest songwriting to bear on the journey of a resilient protagonist named Josie, fearlessly exploring themes of […]
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