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Max McNown “Night Diving”

January 28, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Max McNown’s second album builds strongly on foundations of debut. Max McNown is a singer-songwriter, originally from the Pacific Northwest but now based in Nashville after spending the early part of his career in Southern California.  […]
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Feature: “Folk City – The Greenwich Village Musical”

January 28, 2025 Liz Thomson 0
With Greenwich Village firmly in the limelight, thanks to the new Dylan biopic, Liz Thomson casts an eye on an original Broadway production, “The Greenwich Village Musical” which played until Covid shut it down. It’s now […]
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Ar Lewi “Two Minds”

January 28, 2025 Jonathan Smith 0
Campfire musings and quiet words. A new name to the Americana UK universe, Ar Lewi describes kickstarting his musical journey by living out of the back of his car at state campgrounds, and inviting fellow campers […]
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Grey DeLisle announces “The Grey Album” and UK dates

January 28, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Prolific voice actress and singer-songwriter Grey DeLisle has scheduled the release of her latest record “The Grey Album” on 4th April 2025 via Hummin’bird Records. DeLisle endured a long songwriting dry spell while concentrating on her […]
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Dan Raza “Water Reflects (What It’s Shown)” – take care in your choices

January 28, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Dan Raza’s third album ‘Wayfarer’ is due for release on February 14th, and today’s song is – as you may have guessed – the latest single from it.  We’ve already said something about the album here, […]

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There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

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Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

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At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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