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Track Premiere: Taylor Hollingsworth “Never Can be Lonely”

July 30, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
‘Never Can be Lonely‘ sees finger-picker Taylor Hollingsworth stomping through a series of observations of life lived in an alienated way – living in a van, drinking beers, consuming pain pills, rollin’ downhill, literally and metaphorically.  […]
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Video: Karen Jonas “Gold in the Sand”

July 30, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
Check out this recent single from Virginia based singer-songwriter Karen Jonas.  Fluttering guitar and gorgeous piano rise from layers of vintage instrumentation, including flourishes of pedal steel by Ahren Buchheister and fiddle from Bobby Hawk, in […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Mindy Smith “Raggedy Ann”

July 29, 2024 David Jarman 6
My introduction to Mindy Smith’s music came at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2004, when I was entranced by the pure clarity and beauty of her voice. Performing with acoustic guitar, when she broke a string, […]
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Bill Callahan “Resuscitate”

July 29, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
Extraordinary live document that takes the listener into the room. Magisterial! The date is March 22nd, 2022. Bill Callahan is on the stage at Chicago’s Thalia Hall, flanked by Matt Kinsey on guitar, Dustin Laurenzi on […]
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Live Review: Wes Collins Band + Jeff Reid & John Fonvielle, Live at Ted’s, Wilmington, North Carolina – 12th July 2024

July 29, 2024 Dean Nardi 0
Pop-up thunderstorms were in the forecast on July 12th all around Live at Ted’s in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. Some storms had already been popping as Wes Collins and his band members navigated their way down […]

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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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Preview 2: The Long Road Festival, 23rd-25th August 2024 – New acts to look out for

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The Long Road festival, previewed on our site last week, is now less than a week away, at Stanford Hall in Leicestershire over the August bank holiday weekend (23rd to 25th August). One of the pleasures […]
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