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Holly Lerski “Sweet Decline”

April 29, 2024 Lyndon Bolton 0
A profoundly personal journey of emotion, pain and hope. Individually the pain of breaking up and travelling are frequent sources of inspiration for songwriters but together they are perhaps less prevalent. But that is exactly what […]
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The Gravel-Aires “If the Devil Don’t Want Her” – With a Stonesy swagger, Vancouver roots rockers The Gravel-Aires deliver their new single

April 29, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0
With a Stonesy swagger, Vancouver roots rockers The Gravel-Aires deliver their new single, ‘If the Devil Don’t Want Her’.  Songwriters Mark Branscombe and Michael Mahoney have released their third album, ‘Westerly’, a follow-up to 2021’s ‘Headlights […]
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Folk Roundup – Richard Trethewey, Phoebe Rees, Louise Bichan, One Night String Band, Twm Morys and Gwyneth Glyn, Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach

April 29, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Another set of folk music albums for our short review format Folk Roundup column – and this time we can finally say that the Welsh Folk album has arrived.  Strangely this is probably a first for […]
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Misner and Smith “All Is Song”

April 29, 2024 Michael Macy 2
This album is a gem. Finely cut and polished, it has multiple facets and an inner sparkle. Like most gemstones, it has a flaw or two. ‘All Is Song’ is the sixth album of the Northern […]
Mary Gauthier + Jaimee Harris live at The Metronome, Nottingham, - 21st April, 2024
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Live Review: Mary Gauthier + Jaimee Harris, The Metronome, Nottingham – 21st April 2024

April 29, 2024 Graeme Tait 4
This evening’s performance took place at The Metronome, which, since it first opened its doors back in October 2018, has fast become one of the best venues in the city of Nottingham which throughout the years […]

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Another stellar offering from a band with a burgeoning reputation. Norfolk’s Brown Horse is a band that is nothing if not prolific. Total Dive is the band’s third album in as many years. That productivity probably […]
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Mom and Pop Music artists The Brudi Brothers have announced the release of a new EP titled Dark & Stormy on April 17th. In celebration of the release, vaunted Seattle radio station KEXP has aired The […]

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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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Billy Bragg, Online Concert – Streaming from 9th September 2021

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An evening with Billy Bragg, and if not quite yet live in person this live-streamed event (with 30 days of return viewing) is as close as it gets right now to that elusive live experience. In […]
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Liz Longley leaves sad songs behind to reflect on the concerns and wonderment of marriage and parenthood. When you think of female singers with the most immaculate voices, and perfect pitch, you would probably come up […]

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