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Màiri Morrison & Alasdair Roberts “Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads From Nova Scotia”

April 25, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
Traditional transatlantic folk songs spring to life on this splendid collection of bloody tales. Drag city isn’t a label you’d immediately associate with traditional Scottish folk songs but when Alasdair Roberts pressed a demo of his […]
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Album Reviews

Steph Cameron “Blood Moon”

April 25, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0
Communion between past and present is found through nature. The current musical landscape is so incredibly vast that it can be overwhelming at times. Internet, rather than providing a platform for talented unknown artists to reach […]
Tami Neilson
News

Tami Neilson to release new album “Neon Cowgirl”

April 25, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Tami Neilson will be releasing her latest album “Neon Cowgirl” on 11th July 2025 via  Outside Music.  The Canadian-born New Zealand singer-songwriter will also be touring in the US with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan as […]
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Features

Anniversary Cheers: Six Shooter Records celebrates 25 years and re-releases Amelia Curran’s “Hunter Hunter”

April 25, 2025 FredArnold 2
This occasional Feature today explores the ground-breaking Toronto-based record label Six Shooter Records and its latest re-release under its Silver Series banner. Today we celebrate 25 years of one of the most authentic, independent and ground-breaking […]
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed 182 “Well bless my soul…”

April 25, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 4
I have discussed the power of live music many times in this column before, as well as my father’s descent into dementia and the sheer joy of the dementia choir that we attend together, run by […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

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The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]
Album Reviews

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0
The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]
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Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers

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Includes tracks from My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams and MJ Lenderman among others. Cinema Music Group, Killphonic Records, and City Slang have announced Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 – Out of […]

  • Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits
  • Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”
  • Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers
  • Greg Freeman announces new album and UK dates
  • All-star line-up for Bob Harris event announced for Royal Albert Hall in December
  • Live Review: Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes + Riley Catherall, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 25th July 2026
  • Clayton Denwood “Looking for a Road”
  • Ferris & Sylvester “The Game” – going back to the beginning
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Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider

August 4, 2026 0
Nashville East resident Aaron Lee Tasjan has long been a favourite of Americana UK, and with 12 albums to his name, including his latest Get Over It, Underdog, and approaching 40, he is no longer the […]
Interviews

Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
Interviews

Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]

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Julian Taylor “Weighing Down” – Don’t carry the weight of the world…

April 19, 2024 0
Excited to be sharing the latest single from Julian Taylor?  Of course.  How does it sound?  Excellent!  ‘Weighing Down‘ is the first taste of the upcoming album ‘Pathways‘, which will be released on September 27, 2024, […]
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Willie Nelson nudges his album count up

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Willie Nelson has, apparently, 150 albums to his name.  We haven’t fact checked that, we’re taking it as the truth.  It sounds believable after all.  These include a number of albums that have the Texan legend […]
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More People Should Really Know About: Rachel Harrington

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When this feature first appeared in these hallowed pages, it aimed to allow us writers the opportunity to advocate for an artist who we felt deserved to be more widely recognised, the only caveat being that […]

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