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Whitney K “Ode To The Old Ways” – not cottage core….

July 24, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

A new single, from the new album ‘Vivi‘ which came out last Thursday.  It has, as you’ll be hearing by now if you have any sense, the sound of a live album, but it’s actually a […]

Videos

Video: Andy Hall “Squareneck Soul”

July 24, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

What a stunningly talented performer Andy Hall is.  This solo video of ‘Squareneck Soul’ features just Hall and his squareneck Dobro guitar, notes slipping, sliding and tumbling.  His nimble fingers and sweeping steel find a gorgeous […]

Tracks

Something for the weekend: First Aid Kit “Everybody’s Got to Learn”

July 21, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it from us for another week and we leave you dear reader with a previously unreleased track from the new expanded version of  Swedish indie-folksters First Aid Kit’s most recent album from 2022, this time […]

Interviews

Interview: Barbara Manning returns to the live music scene

July 21, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

A much missed “cult” artist, Barbara Manning has announced her first live tour of the UK in almost three decades. When the news broke that Barbara Manning was to tour in the UK for the first […]

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Far From Saints “Far From Saints”

July 21, 2023 Viv Fish 0

It’s only Patty Lynn, Dwight Baker and Kelly Jones, FFS. Not one to rest on his laurels, and although he has never even gone away, Kelly Jones is enjoying something of a renaissance right now. With […]

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Interview: Trevor Sensor on connection, bataille and love in the time of confusion

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Anniversary Cheers: The Delines “The Scenic Sessions” gets a wider release for its 10th birthday

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Folk Roundup – Spafford & Campbell, Mikey Kenney, Merlyn Driver, Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola, Eva Goodman & SERA, Kate Gregory and Brendan Hearn, Sons Of Perdition

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  • Interview: Trevor Sensor on connection, bataille and love in the time of confusion
  • More People Really Should Know About: Melanie Ida Chopko
  • Anniversary Cheers: The Delines “The Scenic Sessions” gets a wider release for its 10th birthday
  • Folk Roundup – Spafford & Campbell, Mikey Kenney, Merlyn Driver, Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola, Eva Goodman & SERA, Kate Gregory and Brendan Hearn, Sons Of Perdition
  • Haunted Like Human “American Mythology”
  • The Song Remains: Bob Weir
  • Gold Star “Phantom Sam” – anyone seen him?
  • Video: Katie Spencer “Cypress & Bog Oak” / “Stranger”
  • For the Sake of the Song: Peter Rowan “Panama Red”
  • Amy Grant “The 6th Of January (Yasgur’s Farm)” – searching for a united, optimistic, progressive nation
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  • Tim Martin: Great appraisal of Weir, Martin. Evening Moods is an album which doesn't get enough attention. 2 Djinn would have been…
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Interview: Trevor Sensor on connection, bataille and love in the time of confusion

January 13, 2026 0

“Are you really real, do you feel the same thing that I do, girl, when I touch you, girl?” ~ Ricky Nelson According to iconic filmmaker Federico Fellini, “The visionary is the only true realist.” Before […]

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Interview: Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event on struggles, joys and the journey

December 12, 2025 0

Hard times, no, unusually hard times served to bring the Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett a sense of purpose in life as a singer, songwriter, band leader, author and speaker about childhood trauma. As he […]

Interviews

Interview: Ian Gomm on Brinsley Schwarz, Nashville, Jeb Loy Nichols and football records

December 11, 2025 0

The Brinsley’s “Silver Pistol” was the album that perfected their Band obsession and, at the same time, showed that there was a lot more to them than being simple wannabes. Coincidentally, it was the first time […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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