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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 Brian D'Ambrosio 2
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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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 Brian D'Ambrosio 0
Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]
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Interview: Rufus Wainwright brings Kurt Weill’s music into the 21st century

November 19, 2025 Brian D'Ambrosio 0
Rufus Wainwright’s fascination with Kurt Weill began early. “I first came in contact with Kurt when I was about 12 or 13,” he recalled. “I was at a record store and I saw an album with […]
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Interview: Greta Gaines – Bird before light and the freedom to begin again

October 7, 2025 Brian D'Ambrosio 0
Greta Gaines has never been one to stay in a single lane. From her early days as a world champion snowboarder to her self-taught journey into songwriting, she has always followed her instincts—sometimes against the grain, […]
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Interview: The quiet brilliance of Anna Tivel

September 22, 2025 Brian D'Ambrosio 1
Anna Tivel’s songs unfold like poems whispered across a room—delicate, precise, but carrying the weight of entire lives. She has long been one of folk music’s most poetic voices, a songwriter who makes space for silence, […]

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Cody Landress-Gibson “Music To Get By On”

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Live Review: Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle + Junior Brother + Sam Grassie, EartH, London – 3rd September 2026

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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

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Hollow Hand takes Wish Road South out on the… apologies for this… road

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Be Good Tanyas release 25th Anniversary vinyl edition of debut album “Blue Horse”

September 15, 2026 0
Twenty-five years after The Be Good Tanyas introduced their singular take on folk music to the world, the celebrated Vancouver group has announced a special 25th anniversary edition of their debut album, Blue Horse, arriving November […]
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Cody Landress-Gibson “Music To Get By On”

September 15, 2026 0
From punk to pedal steel, the Chattanooga storyteller lays bare the challenges of a tough year. This is a short, impactful record. Cody Landress-Gibson cuts to the chase and burrows into our hearts. His gut-twisting lyrics […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle + Junior Brother + Sam Grassie, EartH, London – 3rd September 2026

September 15, 2026 0
An Autumnal return to EartH (Experimental Arts Hackney) for a remarkable line-up in the converted cinema main hall.  Pentangle were one of the big four of British folk-rock bands alongside Fairport, Steeleye Span and the Incredible […]

  • Be Good Tanyas release 25th Anniversary vinyl edition of debut album “Blue Horse”
  • Cody Landress-Gibson “Music To Get By On”
  • Live Review: Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle + Junior Brother + Sam Grassie, EartH, London – 3rd September 2026
  • Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”
  • Hollow Hand takes Wish Road South out on the… apologies for this… road
  • Blue Twisted Steel “Turnstile Of Romance”
  • My Morning Jacket “Like A Hurricane” – take it to the bridge
  • Video Premiere: New Earth Farmers “Atmosphere”
  • For The Sake Of The Song: Bob Dylan “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)”
  • Track Premiere: Louise Bichan “The Standing Stones”
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]
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Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
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Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

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Vera Van Heeringen “Won’t Be Broken” (Wood & Steel, 2020)

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Look, there are a lot of acoustic-based female singer-songwriters out there who are recording and performing in the same arena as Vera Van Heeringen; no need to name them here as this review is part of […]
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Margo Price announces new album for next month

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Any album that has a track called Cocaine Cowboys is probably going to be ace. Consequence of Sound report: “Margo Price took country music by storm with her 2016 debut Midwest “Farmer’s Daughter”, a record she followed up with this […]
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Bess Atwell “Light Sleeper”

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A high-quality release from Brighton-based singer-songwriter; these are beautiful songs, full of emotion. Bess Atwell is an extremely talented singer-songwriter from Brighton; on her third full-length release, ‘Light Sleeper‘, she elegantly covers a wide assortment of […]

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