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Pete Astor “Tall Stories & New Religions”

April 9, 2024 Paul Russell 0
Re-examining a career of masterful songs from prolific tunesmith. When you’ve got a career as extensive and eclectic as Pete Astor, one can’t help but become reflective when one celebrates 40 years of making records. That’s […]
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Live Review: Brown Horse + Pigeon Wigs + Ead Wood: Le Pub, Newport – 29th March 2024

April 9, 2024 Tim Martin 0
Brown Horse have attracted the sort of reviews most bands dream of for their debut album and consequently they drew a respectable Good Friday crowd to Newport.  Managing to cram all six of the band onto […]
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Magic Tuber Stringband “Needlefall”

April 9, 2024 Tim Martin 0
Improvised Avant-folk with a unique sound and a strong connection to the nature it celebrates. Magic Tuber Stringband, from North Carolina, are Courtney Werner and Evan Morgan. The duo describe their music as “at the forefront […]
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Ani DiFranco “New Bible” – Time to adopt different way

April 9, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Ani DiFranco’s latest album ‘Unprecedented Sh!t’ is being heralded by a pair of singles ‘The Thing At Hand‘ and the song we’re featuring today ‘New Bible.’   It’s a song which depicts a way of living that stands […]
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Video Premiere: Simon Stanley Ward “Another Page”

April 9, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
Here is a fine song from Simon Stanley Ward and The Shadows of Doubt, artfully recorded during their recent album launch show at Paper Dress Vintage, Hackney.  ‘Another Page’, originally taken from the group’s debut album […]

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I’m back from 3 weeks of glorious touring around the Iberian Peninsula in the van. A total of 2,400 miles as we circled the entire country with a brief excursion into Portugal, and every single mile […]
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Kris Drever “Doing This For Love” – anything, anything

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Kris Drever – known for both his solo work and as part of Lau – returns with his first solo record in six years, and this is the title track from it.  It’s a song about […]
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Video Premiere: Erik Stucky “Bag of Bones”

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The new single from Nashville-based Coloradan Erik Stucky is a compelling song, driven forward by Justin Vorp’s lightly insistent percussion and Steven Schumann’s pulsing bass. Full of unresolved tension, Bag of Bones hooks us in with […]

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

April 27, 2026 0
David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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My colleague Graeme Tait is taking a well-earned break this month, so he has graciously allowed me to step back in to fill his shoes for April’s review of the latest EPs. And what a very […]
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Frank Poindexter With The Rice Brothers “Washington & Lee Swing” – Dobro Delights

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Frank Poindexter is a natural choice for the Wednesday afternoon “instrumental when we have ’em” Track slot, not only is he a master of dobro but his back story is quite simple one of those that […]
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Video: Bird “The Film”

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The new single from Bird, the musical moniker of Janie Price, explores themes of loss, heartbreak and lingering memories as a relationship unravels. ‘The Film’ opens with moody guitar before Bird delivers her compelling, hypnotic vocals. […]

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