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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.
cover art for Icarus Phoenix album "I Should Have Known The Things You Never Said (Deluxe Edition)
Album Reviews

Icarus Phoenix “I Should Have Known The Things You Never Said” (Deluxe Edition)

August 7, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
Danburry and team expand on the compelling uneasiness of last year’s album with an additional twenty-nine songs from the same recording session. In his review last September of Icarus Phoenix’s latest release, “I Should Have Known […]
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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: J.J Cale

August 6, 2025 Graeme Tait 4
By the time Oklahoma-born singer-songwriter and guitarist J.J. Cale released his debut album in 1971, he was rapidly approaching his 33rd birthday. Along with several other young Tulsa musicians, Cale had moved to Los Angeles in […]
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Live Reviews

Live Review: Albert Lee, The Drill, Lincoln – 20th July 2025

August 4, 2025 Graeme Tait 2
The Drill is one of the city of Lincoln’s premier and most iconic live venues. It is also its oldest. Formerly known as The Drill Hall, this Grade II-listed building was erected in 1890 as a […]
Danny Bradley live at the Kirton in Lindsey Garden Festival - 19th July 2025
Live Reviews

Live Review: Danny Bradley + Plumhall & Holly Taymar, Kirton in Lindsey Garden Festival – 19th July 2025

August 1, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
The Kirton in Lindsey Garden Festival, which celebrated its sixth anniversary this weekend, was intended once again to take place in the wonderful and spacious garden of residents and passionate supporters of the local americana music […]
Book Reviews

Book Review: Mark Brend “Down River: In Search of David Ackles”

July 25, 2025 Graeme Tait 8
Brend’s detailed and passionate evaluation sheds light on one of the great maverick talents of popular music. David Ackles’ recording career lasted barely six years, yielding just four albums. Of those four albums, his third, “American […]

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For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

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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: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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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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Live Review: Angeline Morrison + Maddie Morris, Cecil Sharp House, London, 20th October 2022

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Cecil Sharp House on an Autumnal evening was the place to be to witness a major folk talent emerging.  That’s a big claim, but 2022 has surely been Angeline Morrison’s year with first the album ‘The […]
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The origin of the expression “skeleton at the feast (or banquet)” has been traced back to the Egyptian custom of bringing a skeleton or mummy to a feast as a reminder of mortality amidst the festivity. […]
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Track Premiere: Brother Earl & The Cousins “Down With My Ship”

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It was church, via a DUI at the age of 16, that really led Brother Earl to music – part of the sentencing was to help out at his mom’s church over the summer.  It was […]

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