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About Andy Short
You would think with all the music I listen to I would be able to write a song but lyrically I get nowhere near some of the lines I've listened to. Maybe one day but until then I will keep on listening.
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Album Reviews

The Bluest Sky “Homegrown”

April 16, 2025 Andy Short 0
Six of the best under a clear blue sky. A mini-album is a somewhat unusual concept. On the one hand, it gives the listener a taster of what may be to come on a complete outing; […]
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Grey DeLisle “The Grey Album”

March 31, 2025 Andy Short 0
Grey DeLisle is back with a collection of traditional country story songs. Grey DeLisle is a prolific songwriter. However, it was the isolation of the 2020 lockdown that allowed her to regain the spark and produce […]
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For The Sake Of The Song: Gordon Lightfoot “Early Morning Rain”

March 24, 2025 Andy Short 8
If the measure of a song is how often it is covered, then ‘Early Morning Rain’ by Gordon Lightfoot would be high in the chart. Factor in the calibre of the musicians who have embraced the […]
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Marty Bohannon/Matt Bohannon “A Scar Is Born”/”Go Back To Your Roots”

March 14, 2025 Andy Short 0
The Bohannon brothers go solo with fine results. Marty and Matt Bohannon are brothers from Chattanooga, Tennessee. After over twenty years of playing together and delivering some mighty southern rock, they decided to split for a […]
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Red Sky July “Misty Morning”

February 26, 2025 Andy Short 0
Husband and wife duo Shelly Poole and Ally McErlaine are joined by vocalist Haley Glennie-Smith to produce something special. Red Sky July are a husband-and-wife duo consisting of Ally McErlaine, Shelly Poole, and Haley Glennie-Smith on […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0
Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]
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Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0
Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0
Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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This was the second of two packed nights at Bush Hall and Courtney Marie Andrews and her band took to the stage and launched into Rookie Dreaming, the opening track from her current album Honest Life. […]
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Video Premiere: The Bean Pickers Union “Warrior”

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Since 2006, Chuck Melchin has been putting out great Americana with a fluid, ever-changing collective called The Bean Picker’s Union, a cast of fine musicians.  The band’s music reflects a range of roots influences and they […]
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Tommy Hale “Magnificent Bastard” (Holiday Disaster, 2016)

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The opening, title, track stops and starts you in your tracks. Tommy Hale, from Dallas, sings, “It seems I’ve let time slip away. It goes over the hill like a wild dog.” Here is the celebration, […]

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