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Video Premiere: The Fretless & Madeleine Roger “Caledonia”

August 14, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

Canadian string quartet The Fretless join forces with Madeleine Roger for a poignant celebration of the Scottish Highlands in the new video for ‘Caledonia’.   This is an absolutely stunning track brought to life on the screen […]

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Mark Knopfler releases digital deluxe version of “One Deep River”

August 14, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

A digital deluxe version of Mark Knopfler’s tenth album “One Deep River” has been released on 12th August 2024 on the British Grove label via EMI, making all 21 of the songs from the One Deep […]

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Po’ Ramblin’ Boys “Wanderers Like Me”

August 14, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

Traditional bluegrass from Tennessee moonshiners with a whiff of rock and roll attitude. Moonshine is inextricably linked to the music of the American South, so it seems natural that the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys got their start […]

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Video Premiere: Mike & Amy Aiken “Flew Away”

August 14, 2024 Andrew Frolish 1

Check out the latest single from Sea Captain troubadours Mike and Amy Aiken.  The intro’ to ‘Flew Away’ is beautifully warm and resonant, finger-picked guitar dancing gently around sustained pedal steel notes, immediately setting the haunting […]

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Video Interview: Cam Fraser AKA Boulder Fields on being “With All The Other Ghosts”

August 13, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

Old punk musicians never die they just become roots music troubadours. To his friends on the Americana UK team, he is Cam Fraser, a knowledgeable music writer who is proud of his Scottish heritage. However, he […]

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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New music from Cowboy Junkies is something to get excited about and the wonderfully-written ‘Hard to Build. Easy to Break’ meets those high expectations.  This is masterful music, incredibly atmospheric and delivered in growing, swelling layers […]

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This is the latest single taken from John Smith’s outstanding album Headlong and very good it is too.  Catch him on tour with Gomez in April and May.

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