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A quadruple whammy from The Lumineers – new live album, tour film, tour dates and studio record

September 27, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
The Lumineers have announced a European and UK tour for April and May 2025 in support of their fifth studio album set for release in 2025 via Dualtone, which promises to be their biggest European and […]
Album Reviews

Courting Ghosts “Falling My Friend”

September 27, 2024 David Jarman 0
South West England based Courting Ghosts impress with debut album. Formed in 2023 in southwest England, Courting Ghosts are relative newcomers to the Americana scene, but their debut album ‘Falling My Friend’ immediately impresses with its […]
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Videos

Video Premiere: Frank Viele “Dive Bar Poet”

September 27, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0
Sepia toned nostalgia on the screen in the video for Frank Viele’s ‘Dive Bar Poet’.   The song is a character study of bartender who has bigger dreams and ambitions.  The illustrated images in the video evoke […]
Features

The Song Remains: JD Souther (1945- 2024)

September 27, 2024 FredArnold 5
Under-rated songwriter who was instrumental in the rise of Linda Ronstadt and The Eagles and the evolution of country rock. When you put your mind to thinking about or discussing those artists that were influential in […]
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed 156 “Song and Dance”

September 27, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
Last week I wrote about the brilliance of live music and how a decent gig is a redemptive, communal event that can inspire and uplift in sometimes a profound way. Well, this week, I return to […]

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Sam Grassie “Burning Of Auchindoun” – flames take you, and be damned

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Video Premiere: Brock Davis “Nowhere Near Ready”

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Luke Winslow-King “Coast of Light”

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Live Review: Beans On Toast + Ruth Lyon + Bassie Gracie, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham – 11th March 2026

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Sam Grassie “Burning Of Auchindoun” – flames take you, and be damned

March 25, 2026 0
There is something exciting going on in the world of folk, at least it seems that way, as we seem to be going through one of those periods of renewal when a crop of astonishing musicians […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Brock Davis “Nowhere Near Ready”

March 25, 2026 0
Here’s the video premiere of the heartfelt new single from Santa Cruz, California-based singer-songwriter Brock Davis. The notes tumble and roll from Davis’s guitar in a stream of melody while his reflective, intimate vocal flows over […]
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Album Reviews

Luke Winslow-King “Coast of Light”

March 24, 2026 0
An impressive blues-influenced mixture of laid-back and edgier numbers. Coast of Light is Luke Winslow-King’s ninth album after having debuted with Luke Winslow-King in 2008. It is a bit of an outlier from many of the […]

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  • Video Premiere: Brock Davis “Nowhere Near Ready”
  • Luke Winslow-King “Coast of Light”
  • Live Review: Beans On Toast + Ruth Lyon + Bassie Gracie, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham – 11th March 2026
  • The Montvales “Path Of Totality”
  • Pat Carter and Luis de Cicco hit the road to promote new live album
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  • Tony Trischka And Billy Strings “Gentle On My Mind” – the ever calming balm of banjo
  • Video Premiere: Dean Owens “Face The Storm (The Buffalo)”
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
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”

March 11, 2026 2
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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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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American Aquarium are back – and there’s something fishy about the new line-up

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Tbh it’s just changed but that’s only the first of many fish related jokes/puns you can expect if we feature them again over the coming months. They are of course named after a line from the […]
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Video: Kornastone “Spin Me the World”

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Kornastone bring us the title track from their newly-released EP, ‘Spin Me the World’.  After forming in 2018, the wolverhampton-based group have released a full album, ‘Oh My Days’, as well as an EP.  They have […]
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Video: Michael Nesmith “Some Of Shelly’s Blues”

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The retro slot this week is filled by Mike Nesmith. whose early Seventies albums, solo and with the First National Band, are pioneering classics of country rock.  Have a good weekend y’all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASNiqrqI4Qg

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