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Book Review: Steven Hyden “There Was Nothing You Could Do – Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” and the end of the Heartland”

July 17, 2024 Andy Davidson 0
In the film ‘Cool Hand Luke’ (1967) Paul Newman’s character finally cracks under the weight of expectations from his fellow inmates, angrily crying out ‘Stop feeding off me!’ Forty years have passed since the release of […]
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Satellite Inn “Satellite Inn”

July 11, 2024 Andy Davidson 0
Evocative transmissions from alt-country pioneers. Stiv Cantarelli and Satellite Inn go way back. Back to when Ryan Adams was sharing a twelve-passenger rental van with a U-Haul trailer, while Tweedy and Farrar could just about amicably […]
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The Decemberists “As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again”

June 20, 2024 Andy Davidson 0
Far from revolutionary but an undiminished return. Six years on from ‘I’ll be Your Girl’, The Decemberists are back on four sides with their ninth studio album. The second single ‘Joan in the Garden’ along with some band […]
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For the Sake of the Song: The Drive-By Truckers “Play It All Night Long”

June 10, 2024 Andy Davidson 0
I’ve just finished reading Steven Hyden’s new book: ‘There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The USA” and the End of the Heartland’, a book highly recommended by Patterson Hood. Steven Hyden also […]
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Book Review: Willy Vlautin “The Horse”

May 30, 2024 Andy Davidson 0
On Richmond Fontaine’s 2016 ‘You Cant Go Back if There’s Nothing to Go Back To’, the album cover has a solitary, decrepit horse, standing forlornly in a landscape offering little comfort. It is a moribund picture but […]

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Great Willow “Age Of Reason” – Bing bing, bong bong bong, bing bing

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It has been a while, quite a while, since we last featured Great Willow (although we have heard more recently from James Combs, one half of the duo), so it’s really nice to have some new […]
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Video Premiere: The Sensational Country Blues Wonders! (Gary Van Miert) “A Mad Tea Party”

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Disappear down the rabbit hole with the latest single from The Sensational Country Blues Wonders!, the musical project of New Jersey-based musician and performer Gary Van Miert. The video for The Mad Tea Party is a […]
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Something for the long weekend: Steve Earle “City of Immigrants”

May 22, 2026 1
Well that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t got your tickets yet for our 25 year anniversary event featuring Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and you know, others of our ilk, you can head […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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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

May 19, 2026 2
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

May 18, 2026 1
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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