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Something for the weekend: Steve Earle “Jerusalem”

October 13, 2023 Mark Whitfield 12
That’s it from us for another week dear reader. While this is an area in which there are heightened sensitivities at the moment for obvious reasons, it feels cowardly in all good conscience to avoid saying […]
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Uncle Lucius “Civilized Anxiety” – Welcome back, Uncle

October 13, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
You’ll recall long time reader that we’re quite keen on Uncle Lucius, keen enough to wonder whatever happened to them.  Well, as today’s song illustrates after several years on hiatus, Uncle Lucius are back again with […]
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Classic Clips: John Prine “You Got Gold” – Ray Martin At Midday, 1993

October 13, 2023 Kimberly Bright 0
This clip of John Prine is taken from an Australian weekday daytime variety show, ‘Ray Martin At Midday,’ on Nine Network Australia, broadcast live on February 18, 1993. Prine was on a tour there at the […]
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Handsome Ghost “Handsome Ghost”

October 13, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Love and change, change and growth through Indie-Folk. Their self-titled album is, in fact, the third release from Massachusetts alt-folk duo Tim Noyes, who sings and is the main songwriter,  and multi-instrumentalist/producer Eddie Byun.  Handsome Ghost […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 115

October 13, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
Posh seats and a boring gig. Spent a brilliant couple of days in old London town this last week. Ostensibly to catch up with friends, have a few drinks, meet up with an ex-pupil for a […]

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Something for the weekend: Mary Chapin Carpenter & the Mountain Goats “Put the Message in the Box”

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Abigail Lapell announces new album “Shadow Child” out in May

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Award-winning Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell has announced her upcoming new album Shadow Child, an album about motherhood whose nine songs each represent a month of gestation, will be released May 8th via Outside Music. Lapell has […]
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Michael Weston King “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

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Tragedy turned into thoughtful, considered, often uplifting songwriting. At the end of 2024, Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish shared their first artistic reactions to the loss of their granddaughter Bebe King, at Southport with a […]

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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

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A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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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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Mean Mary announces release of her 19th studio album – not so mean after all!

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The Lost Brothers “Halfway Towards A Healing” (Bird Dog Records 2018)

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Here are two singer/songwriters from Ireland, Oisin Leech and Mark McCausland, now based in Liverpool. This is their fifth album, produced and recorded by Howe Gelb and Gabriel Sullivan (of Giant Sand fame) at the Dust […]
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Amythyst Kiah “Sugar” – rough cut as well as sweet

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