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Something for the weekend: Briscoe “Saving Grace”

September 26, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. My excitement for the weekend is heading to the Beamish living museum of the north where hopefully I won’t be sentenced to 7 years hard labour […]
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Jeff Tweedy “Twilight Override”

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One of the founding fathers of americana music delivers a magnum opus for our times. Well, suppose you find that music is a distraction from difficult times. In that case, the current state of the world […]
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Drive By Truckers to release expanded “Decoration Day” with live extras

September 26, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
Drive-By Truckers are bringing back one of their most celebrated albums, “Decoration Day,” and it’s going to be called… “The Definitive Decoration Day”, and it’ll come out on November 14th. The 4-LP box set features the remixed […]
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Classic Clips: Marty Stuart and The Fabulous Superlatives, ‘Runnin’ Down A Dream’, The Egg Center for the Performing Arts, September 18, 2018

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After a weekend full of roots music at the FreshGrass Festival, North Adams, MA, I had the very good fortune to find myself three days later in Albany, NY in time to catch Roger McGuinn and […]
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Jake Xerxes Fussell and James Elkington team up for first soundtrack

September 26, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Songwriters Jake Xerxes Fussell and James Elkington have collaborated on their first original film score for “Rebuilding”, the new feature film written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman. The film, which stars Josh O’Connor, Lily LaTorre, Meghann […]

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