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Deputy Editor & Videos Editor at Americana UK, promoter at Greenbird Promotions, writer for R2 and Maverick magazines, possessor of more CDs than is entirely decent and inveterate hoarder.
Videos

Video: Rod Picott “Store Bought”

January 18, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

From his new double album and undoubted career high  (which is saying something) Out Past The Wires, released on February 16th, this is the mighty Rod Picott.  He’s in the UK in March and you really […]

Album Reviews

The Raving Beauties “Raving For Bap” (Farm Music, 2017)

January 17, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

Irishman Bap Kennedy left us far too early, hit by the curse of cancer and passing on at only 54 in 2016.  In his memory, and with all proceeds going to Marie Curie cancer care, comes […]

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Video: Trembling Bells “Christ’s Entry Into Govan”

January 17, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

The really rather good Trembling Bells have a new album, Dungeness, out on March 30th from which this excellent piece of classically styled yet somehow contemporary folk rock is taken.  Fun video too.

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Video: Christopher Rees “I Shiver”

January 16, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

From his latest album The Nashville Songs, this is a gloriously dark and gothic slice of Americana from Welsh singer-songwriter Christopher Rees.

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James Edwyn & the Borrowed Band “High Fences” (Dead Records Collective, 2017)

January 15, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

January is a miserable month. The weather’s terrible, nobody has any money, everyone’s back at work for another year’s grind and there’s next to nothing happening musically. Which makes the release of ‘High Fences’ something to […]

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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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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‘Sister of the Sun’, the recent single from The Hanging Stars, is the stuff of ethereal dreams, floating up into the musical cosmos on the twinkling stardust of Patrick Ralla’s keys and echoing guitar. Paulie Cobra’s […]

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