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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.
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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Live Review; Sara Petite, The Town Hall, Kirton In Lindsey – 12th April 2024

April 23, 2024 Graeme Tait 4
This evening’s performance at Lincolnshire’s premier Americana Music venue, the Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey, saw the return of last year’s headline act for the (THL) Festival, Sara Petite, supported by the same incredible musicians that […]
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The Secret Sisters “Mind, Man, Medicine”

April 9, 2024 Graeme Tait 2
Sisters from Alabama stay close to home for their fifth offering that sees a shift in perspective with an album immersed in the present. Four years on from the release of the Grammy-nominated album ‘Saturn Return’ […]
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Live Review: Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman + Andy Lenton, Nettleham Village Hall, Nettleham, Lincoln – 22nd March 2024

April 3, 2024 Graeme Tait 0
The folk club at Nettleham Village Hall can always be relied on to deliver the highest quality acts to entertain the local congregation and this particular evening was no exception with what can only be described […]

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Award-winning Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell has announced her upcoming new album Shadow Child, an album about motherhood whose nine songs each represent a month of gestation, will be released May 8th via Outside Music. Lapell has […]

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A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
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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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