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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.
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Video: Alex Bayly “Animal”

November 26, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0
A simple but beautiful animated video accompanies the new single by alt-folk man Alex Bayly.  It’s a lovely ethereal, pastoral song taken from his debut album ‘Ley Lines‘, with wistful high vocals from Bayly and delicate […]
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Video Premiere: DeFrance “Runaway Heart”

November 25, 2019 Jeremy Searle 1
Here’s some proper rootsy rock’roll to start the week.  With shades of Tom Petty and southern rock the Arkansas outfit absolutely nail it.  They’ve apparently got five (!) albums in the can waiting to go and […]
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Video: Gene Clark “Hear The Wind”

November 22, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0
It’s been a while since we’ve had a retro post on a Friday and there couldn’t be a better way to restart than with the great Gene Clark recorded live in 1988.  Have a great weekend […]
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Video: The Gary Douglas Band “Deep In The Water”

November 21, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0
Now here’s something important.  It’s the powerful new single from the Gary Douglas Band, just out, and it deals with the dreadful consequences of the DuPont Corporation dumping cancer-inducing chemicals in the Ohio river.  As well […]
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Video: 3hattrio “Zion Song”

November 20, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0
From their new album, ‘Live At Zion‘, recorded to celebrate the centenary of the Zion National Park in Utah and released yesterday, this is the amazing bleached desert sound of the great 3hattrio.

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For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

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Marah Live
Features

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0
Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]
Album Reviews

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0
An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]
Album Reviews

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

March 23, 2026 0
An album with some credible moments and interesting songs which lay the foundations for his solo career. Country music can divide opinion at the best of times. It’s praised for its tropes and cliches as often […]

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  • Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”
  • Jack Studer “Falling Forward”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”
  • Track Premiere: Bill Scorzari “Open Door”
  • Video: Jay Buchanan “Sway” – always wanting to do it better
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
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”

March 11, 2026 2
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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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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Ash Gray and the Burners “Live 55”

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Live versions from the Ash Gray catalogue, re-imagined by a rocking red hot band. Well, welcome to some very slick, excitingly played live country rock… from Sheffield!  Think early Poco, or the Flying Burrito Brothers, or […]
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Ralph McTell announces new album and extensive tour

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Veteran folk singer Ralph McTell will be releasing a new album on September 20th. It’s been some time in the coming since ‘Hill of Beans‘ is McTell’s first album of new material since his 2010 release […]
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Track Premiere: Lara Taubman “Silver Linings”

July 18, 2022 0
Lara Taubman’s second album ‘Ol’ Kentucky Light‘, is out on September 16th on Atomic Sound Record Company,and it sees the New York-based country-soul singer/songwriter address mortality, mental health, spirituality, survival, and the finding of hope in […]

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