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About Jonathan Aird
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?
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Classic Clips: Bonny Light Horseman “The Roving” opbmusic Live Session, 2020

September 29, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
This is, of course, the band that played London on the 1st of February 2020, and it perfectly captures the band’s wonderfully easy interplay – and their obvious joy that their music gives them.  And if […]
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The Northern Belle “Merchant Navy Hotel” – like paradise, but better

September 29, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
It’s been a while, but here at last is some new music from one of our favourite Nordicana bands – Nordicana of course being the even more finely genre slice that covers the Americana style music […]
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Dylan LeBlanc “Coyote” – not to be trusted

September 28, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
The new single from Dylan LeBlanc latest release is its title track – it’s a dusty tale of nefarious doings South of the border, as crime is once more seen as the route out of poverty.  . […]
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Track Premiere: Taylor Pearlstein “Sandman”

September 28, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
There’s a dreamy disorientating feel to today’s Track Premiere, perhaps because Taylor Pearlstein shares that she comes from the Seattle area, as she hails from the sleepy, Lynchian small-town mountains of the Snoqualmie Valley.   And just […]
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Track Premiere: Brown Horse “Stealing Horses”

September 27, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Brown Horse are a six piece Americana band from Norwich (A Fine City) – they originally formed as a four piece folk band comprising Emma Tovell, Nyle Holihan, Patrick Turner and Rowan Braham in 2018 and […]

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We’re heading towards the Summer now, May Day falls this week, and the obvious thing would be to offer you, valued reader, a swathe of music that touches on those themes of rebirth and the explosion […]
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Lenny Kaye has announced his debut solo record, Goin’ Local, which will be out 17th July 2026 via Yep Roc Records. At 79, the punk pioneer and “godfather of garage rock” steps forward with a deeply […]
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Natalie Jane Hill “Hopeful Woman”

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Things can be simple, and things can be hard as the singer pulls at the heartstrings. Natalie Jane Hill’s Hopeful Woman is her third album, with a five- to six-year gap between this one and Solely […]

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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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