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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It – Rosanne Cash

October 2, 2024 FredArnold 3
Rosanne Cash is not a name that immediately springs to mind when thinking of a high profile, longstanding artist with a back catalogue where you will find a series of albums that are all worth listening […]
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Jon Byrd and Amelia White announce co-headline UK tour dates

October 2, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Nashville’s Jon Byrd and Amelia White have announced their Tennessee Two-Step tour of venues around England in October 2024.  The dates, which you can find below, start in North London at Camden’s iconic Green Note on […]
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Album Reviews

William Harries Graham “Annie’s House”

October 2, 2024 Dean Nardi 0
A song cycle for every guy who has had a tattoo of his girlfriend’s name inside a heart on his arm. Then she leaves. “Annie’s House” is the fourth album from William Harries Graham since his […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Dawn Landes & Friends, Milton Court, London – 7th September 2024

October 2, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
No normal gig this, more of an event – with Dawn Landes’s latest album, ‘The Liberated Women’s Songbook‘ at the heart of it.  There’s a band, there are supporting singers and musicians and there are little […]
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Album Reviews

Kelley Mickwee “Everything Beautiful”

October 2, 2024 Chas Lacey 0
Soulful singing and retro-production reminiscent of ‘Dusty In Memphis’. Having set out to make “a record that sounds like a girl from Memphis, because that’s who I am”, Kelley Mickwee’s ‘Everything Beautiful’ has a wonderful retro-soul […]

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Video Premiere: Madam Radar “The Show Must Go On”

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Madam Radar’s The Show Must Go On is an anthem for performing, celebrating the lifestyle of the touring musician. In the accompanying video premiere, directed by Garrett Jay Brown, we get to see the band on […]
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Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

May 15, 2026 1
Well that’s it from us for this week, and bear with me dear reader with the track we’re leaving you with for the weekend which despite starting off sounding like we’ve veered into covering 90s-era Britpop, […]
Album Reviews

Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”

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Americana legends celebrate 21st-century releases on latest career retrospective. Forty years in, the Cowboy Junkies remain one of the great under-the-surface bands in Americana: despite having a million-selling classic to their name, they rarely make best-of […]

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  • Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”
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Interview: Daniel Tashian on being a reluctant band leader and the joys of songwriting collaborations

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Daniel Tashian is a legend in Nashville. He’s a deeply respected songwriter, he’s a solo artist with six albums to his name, he’s been in two superb bands, and he’s the go-to guy when you want […]
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Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

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The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]
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Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

May 12, 2026 0
“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]

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Izzy Heltai “Only Yesterday” (Sleeper Cave Records, 2019)

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Izzy Heltai is an indie-folk, singer-songwriter from Northampton, Massachusetts. His new four-track EP ‘Only Yesterday’ tells tales of love and loss that perhaps belie his 22 years. Arrangements on this record are deliberately simple with layering […]
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Sandy Bailey “Daughter of Abraham”

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Some interesting perspectives. Bailey describes this self-produced, ten-song collection as incorporating elements of gospel blues, soul and classic Americana and says her songwriting comes from her identity as a single, 40-something, biracial mother, living and working […]
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Bob Dylan, London Palladium, London 28th April 2017

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This was the first of three nights at The London Palladium, and this pretty theatre is by far the smallest venue I’ve ever seen Dylan in with just a 2,286 capacity: Wembley Arena or The Dome […]

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