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Ross Cooper “Everyone Wants To Be A Cowboy” – let’s go shovel that manure!

July 13, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1

Yes, Ross Cooper knows the reality – the wearing leather chaps, the riding a horse, the big, big hat. These are the things that people like about being a cowboy. Oooh, and the boots and the […]

Track Premiere: Beth Bombara “Moment”

July 12, 2023 Jonathan Aird 2

What a pleasure to be able to offer you, our dear readership, an early listen to the latest song released by the awesome Beth Bombara and taken from the new album ‘It All Goes Up‘ which […]

Radiator King “Hammer & Nails” – I’d rather be a hammer than a nail, yes I would

July 11, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Looking at that band photo (left to right we have Alexander Burke, Adam Silvestri, Brian Viglione) we can’t help but think of one our favourite lines from ‘Almost Famous‘: an impassioned Russell asks the world “is […]

Rufus Wainwright “Folkocracy”

July 11, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1

Star studded folk duets album delivers a polished sound. We don’t know for certain if he’s zipping up his boots, but ‘Folkocracy’ certainly sees musical polymath Rufus Wainwright returning to his roots. The son of Loudon […]

Live Review: Tom Russell, The 100 Club London – 29th June 2023

July 11, 2023 Jonathan Aird 6

And so once more to the 100 Club, the habitual stopover of Tom Russell in London for an evening of..well, who really knows what? Unlike many musicians, Tom Russell didn’t spend the pandemic recording new albums, […]

Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”

August 21, 2026 1

Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from Teenage Fanclub who will release their new album Do Not Dare To Dream on 9th October via […]

Alicia Blue “Country Desire”

August 21, 2026 0

A confident debut that shows the Nashville-based singer-songwriter has a vigour that sets her apart from the crowd. For singer-songwriter Alicia Blue, Waylon Jennings isn’t so much an influence as someone she calls “a creative angel […]

Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015

August 21, 2026 0

Michael Hurley died last year, and wasn’t it starting to look like he wasn’t the dying kind? Every now and then someone goes, and it’s only then that you realise what you’d been hoping for: that […]

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