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Live Review: Sorrel Nation, St Lawrence’s Church Biddulph -12th November 2025

November 19, 2025 NickBarber 0
On one of the wettest autumnal nights in quite a while, a good crowd squeezed into St Lawrence’s Church in Biddulph, North Staffordshire to see the musical debut in the area of Isle of Wight chanteuse […]
Album Reviews

The Quaint & the Curious “Most of my Problems are all in my Head”

November 19, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 0
Unflinching and moving lo-fi recordings focusing on personal struggles. The cover of The Quaint & the Curious’s latest album, entitled ‘Most of my Problems are all in my Head‘, comprises an illustration of several tiny devil-like […]
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Book Review: Jeff Apter “Carl Perkins The King of Rockabilly”

November 19, 2025 Andy Davidson 0
If the Shoe Fits. “Life ain’t nothing but a blending up of all the ups and downs/ Dammit Elvis, don’t you know.” Mike Cooley’s opening line on the 2004 track ‘Carl Perkins’ Cadillac’. A double sovereign […]
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Track Premiere: Samuel Wilbur “Once Again The World Let You Down”

November 19, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Today’s Track Premiere comes from “Ivory Tower“, the latest album by Samuel Wilbur, whom, you may recall, is a Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter, high school teacher (he teaches history), and passionate environmentalist.  He describes “Ivory Tower” as a […]
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Video: Hannah Cohen “Mountain”

November 19, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s the latest single from Catskills-based singer-songwriter Hannah Cohen. Central to ‘Mountain’ is Cohen’s gorgeous vocal delivery – it’s timeless, graceful, pure and sweetly melodic. Most striking are Cohen’s poetic lyrics that meditate on feelings of […]

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Goodness me! June already. Where has the time gone? One minute it was winter, leaden skies delivering rain almost daily, and then suddenly it was summer, leaden skies delivering more rain daily. Ah, well, at least […]
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EELS set to release their 16th album “Cookie Happened” in October… on the 16th

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The fabulous EELS  have announced their 16th studio album Cookie Happened is due for release on 16th October via E Works / Play It Again Sam. Alongside the announcement, the band has released a brand-new single, Cap […]
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Album Reviews

Pillarstone “Mono Lit”

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Debut Group album from two seasoned songwriters, with strands of americana, Celtic folk and indie. Mono Lit is the first album from a new group collaboration of Paul J Bolger and Alex Soikans. Soikans has contributed […]

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Interview: Tinsley Ellis brings the good word acoustically nowadays

June 17, 2026 0
In 2025, Tinsley Ellis returned to the deep roots of the blues after the success of his previous album, Naked Truth (Alligator Records, 2024). There are many different styles of playing wrapped up in his music, […]
Interviews

Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

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Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]
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Interview: Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is thriving

June 10, 2026 0
With influences in blues, jazz and country, Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is actually thriving on their fifth album, Monster Swan (2025). Based in Somerset, England, Beth Packer’s distinctive, emotive vocals, coupled with her evocative lyrics, create […]

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Ed Askew “A Child In The Sun: Radio Sessions 1969-1970” (Drag City 2017)

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The energy which oozes from this collection of early recordings retrieved from the archives of old Ed Askew radio sessions provides a strong urge to delete the pesky mp3 and rush out and buy the vinyl […]
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Amy Helm “Michigan” – Listen

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Amy Helm has shared her new single, ‘Michigan‘, taken from her new album ‘This too shall light‘, which Helm recorded with Joe Henry some 3,000 miles from the family studio in Woodstock at the legendary United […]
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Joel Paterson “King Street Breakdown” – play that guitar!

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Wednesday afternoon – and the blissful retreat from all those pesky lyrics as we enter the Americana UK Ragtime Breakdown Zone (or the AUKRBZ as we sometimes call it).  And today on the AUKRBZ (that’s the […]

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