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AUK’s Chain Gang: Iron & Wine “Such Great Heights”
As soon as I saw our last Chain Gang entry was a cover of The Band’s ‘The Weight’, one very specific thing came to mind: a Saturday Night Live sketch from 2007 with that week’s host, […]
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Album Reviews
Joshua Burnside “Far O’er the Sounding Main” EP (Independent, 2020)
In these times of uncertainty, there is something to be said for the comfort of the familiar and traditional, and that’s exactly what Joshua Burnsides offers up on his latest EP, ‘Far O’er the Sounding Main’. […]
Album Reviews
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit “Reunions” (Thirty Tigers, 2020)
Jason Isbell is the kind of artist who can always be relied on to draw from experience and speak the truth exactly as he sees it, so it’s good to see he’s sticking to what makes […]
Album Reviews
Kathleen Grace with Larry Goldings “Tie Me To You” (Monsoon Records, 2020)
Kathleen Grace went into creating the album ‘Tie Me To You’ with the same feeling that has inspired so many before her: heartbreak. Her devastation was so deep that Grace was barely sleeping and drowning herself […]
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The top 10 Lori McKenna songs
I first discovered Lori McKenna in maybe little of an unusual way: while you may only know Mandy Moore as an actress, or have a vague memory of her limited success in the UK as a […]