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About Graeme Tait
Hi. I'm Graeme, a child of the sixties, eldest of three, born into a Forces family. Keen guitar player since my teens, (amateur level only), I have a wide, eclectic taste in music and an album collection that exceeds 5.000. Currently reside in the beautiful city of Lincoln.
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Phil Odgers and John Kettle “Far Rockaway – The Songs of Phil Ochs”

May 13, 2024 Graeme Tait 0
Two stalwarts of the UK folk scene pay homage to one of America’s finest songsmiths of the sixties protest movement. Like so many releases of recent years the seeds to this project by Phil ‘Swill’ Odgers, […]
Alice Howe, live at The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey, 26th April 2024
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Live Review: Alice Howe + Freebo, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey, 26th April 2024

May 8, 2024 Graeme Tait 4
The final weekend of April saw the long-awaited return of Alice Howe and Freebo to Lincolnshire’s premier Americana music venue, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey, having last appeared upon this stage back in 2018. A […]
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More People Really Should Know About: Katie Powderly

May 7, 2024 Graeme Tait 0
Hailing from Madison, Wisconsin, Katie Powderly is an award winning songwriter whose recording career began well over a decade ago and who has shared bills with such luminaries of the Americana Music genre as Tony Rice, […]
Mary Gauthier + Jaimee Harris live at The Metronome, Nottingham, - 21st April, 2024
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Live Review: Mary Gauthier + Jaimee Harris, The Metronome, Nottingham – 21st April 2024

April 29, 2024 Graeme Tait 4
This evening’s performance took place at The Metronome, which, since it first opened its doors back in October 2018, has fast become one of the best venues in the city of Nottingham which throughout the years […]
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Dawn Landes “The Liberated Woman’s Songbook”

April 25, 2024 Graeme Tait 0
Landes breathes new life into eleven songs that trace the women’s rights movement through the ages for a contemporary audience. Dawn Landes belongs to that complexing group of artists that have never quite achieved the commercial […]

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The Woodstock festival held in 1969 at Yasgur’s farm, Bethel, New York, is one of those truly emblematic moments in the history of contemporary music, and indeed in the birth of americana. And of course it’s […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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Back to 1994 for the retro slot this week, with Dave Edmunds and Geraint Watkins knocking out a storming version of the Chuck Berry classic.  Have a good weekend everyone.
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Track Premiere: Jerry Douglas “What Might Have Been”

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‘What Might Have Been’ is a haunting new song from Jerry Douglas’ upcoming album ‘The Set‘ which will be out on Friday.  An instrumental ode to regret, ‘What Might Have Been‘ is lifted by Aoife O’Donovan’s […]
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River Drivers “Everlasting Faint (The Tale of the Greenbrier Ghost)” true tales that sadly continue

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River Drivers are a Celtic influenced folk band from Phildelphia.  They are a four piece consisting of Mindy Murray (vocals, guitar, banjo, bass), Kevin McCloskey(vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass), Marian Moran (tin whistle, low whistle, concertina) […]

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