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Clare Doyle “Maybelline” – hop into the car

January 20, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Clare Doyle has had quite an accelerated last couple of years – 2023 saw her named as First Avenue’s Best New Bands of 2023, followed with a nod as an Emerging Artist of 2024 by Music […]
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Video Premiere: Celeigh Cardinal “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”

January 20, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s a brilliantly performed cover of the classic “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, delivered by Canada’s Celeigh Cardinal.  This classic, timeless song from Sir Elton is given new life by Cardinal’s rich, warm vocal performance.  She displays […]
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Something for the weekend: Charley Crockett “Good at Losing”

January 17, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it for another week, and we leave you dear reader with a new video from a song which the more observant of you will know featured in my top 10 tracks of 2024 – […]
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jasmine.4.t “You Are The Morning”

January 17, 2025 Andy Davidson 0
Gender and genre worlds collide in Manchester. This is a brave record. In the video for the single ‘Elephant’ there are repeating clips of Jasmine playing an acoustic in her bedroom. It is not hard to […]
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Classic Clips: Jason Isbell “Pancho and Lefty”, 2018

January 17, 2025 FredArnold 0
Isbell performed at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum for the ‘Outlaws and Armadillos’ exhibition. When you combine the superlative talents of Jason Isbell (now Americana’s favourite son) and Townes van Zandt, one of […]

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We are mightily delighted to announce today full details for Americana 25, our celebration of 25 years of Americana UK which comes to two stages across Liverpool’s Rough Trade venue and Quaker Meeting House on Saturday […]
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Something for the weekend: Mary Chapin Carpenter & the Mountain Goats “Put the Message in the Box”

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Well that’s it from us for this week, an exciting day for us as we announce full details for our 25 year event which takes place in Liverpool later this year – you can find more […]
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Abigail Lapell announces new album “Shadow Child” out in May

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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

March 25, 2026 1
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”

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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As outlined in yesterday’s runners-up announcement, The Twang Factor 3 was a very close affair but in the end Southampton-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rob Clamp won it by a nose from runners-up Sunsinger and the […]
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Future Lives “Spirit House”

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Disappointing second album from a group that has the potential to stand out from the crowd. Future Lives’ second album, ‘Spirit House’, is, in their own words, a critique of the Western power structures that must […]
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Track premiere: Jason McNiff “One Too Many Mornings” – Dylan reimagined

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Jason McNiff has a new single out – and in the best of the new traditions it’s a double A-sider and one of those A’s is a Dylan cover.  It makes sense, and it’s wonderful to […]

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