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Jeremie Albino “Our Time In The Sun”

October 23, 2024 Peter Churchill 0
Fourth album from the soulful Canadian brings a touch of nostalgia to proceedings. Jeremie Albino first discovered his love of performing when busking as teenager in his native Toronto. All it took was for one or […]
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Live Review: Fairport Convention, Victoria Hall, Settle – 16th October 2024

October 23, 2024 KC Vines 0
As I walked out on an autumn’s eve, for to view the fields and to take the air… but the air was damp, and the fields were all sodden, so when I spied the twinkling lights […]
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Donald Beaman “Fog on Mirror Glass”

October 23, 2024 Gordon Mackay 0
A unique, atmospheric album from California’s Donald Beaman. Californian Donald Beaman returns with his fifth album ‘Fog On Mirror Glass’. In this release, we are treated to a low-key, understated – almost drifting – set of […]
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The Comatose Brothers “Running on Back”

October 23, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0
The Comatose Brothers hit the ground running with their new single ‘Running on Back’.  Tight harmonies sail over deftly finger-picked guitars with subtle steel guitar and strings for support. Singer Alex Morrison describes writing the song, […]
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Video Premiere: Smoker Dad “Part II”

October 23, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
Check out the new single from Seattle rock band Smoker Dad.  ‘Part II’ is a surging burst of musical energy, dynamic and vibrant and full of life.  With swirling electric guitar and a powerful beat, this […]

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Award-winning Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell has announced her upcoming new album Shadow Child, an album about motherhood whose nine songs each represent a month of gestation, will be released May 8th via Outside Music. Lapell has […]

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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: Blues guitarist extraordinaire Samantha Fish heads to UK for dates

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As regular readers will know, our delicate ears can’t cope with too much noise these days but one artist we are prepared to turn our hearing-aids up for is Kansas City, Missouri’s Samantha Smith who in […]
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Rod Picott lands in UK for tour next month

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Rod Picott has been recording for 17 years now which is almost as long as this century’s been around, his debut album ‘Tiger Tom Dixon’s Blues’ putting a nail in the coffin of his construction career […]
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Live Review: Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Boch Center, Wang Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts – 10th May 2025

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The Wang Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, opened as simply The Met in 1925. Celebrating 100 years of entertainment and now home to the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame, it was only fitting that Gillian Welch […]

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