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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: Jenna Elfman audition for Dylan’s band, Dharma And Greg, 1999

April 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
You may have forgotten the late Nineties American sitcom ‘Dharma and Greg‘ which was built around a premise that has been revisited endlessly in the new 21st century world of Reality TV (The first rule of […]
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Anna Tivel “American Novella” – Drawing to a close

April 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Anna Tivel makes music that hits you hard – soft and quiet it may often be but the ideas are large, the emotions are bare, sometimes brutally so even within the tightly constrained words and the […]
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Track Premiere: Firewoodisland “Looking For Love”

April 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Bristol based folktronica duo Firewoodisland are Stian Vedøy, who hails from Norway, and Abi Eleri who is Welsh.  Together the duo make a modern folk sound – leaning towards the poppier end of that genre.  It’s […]
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Track Premiere: The Rough & Tumble “Carry You”

April 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler are The Rough & Tumble – and we know what you’re wondering, but no we don’t know which one of the duo is Rough and which one is Tumble. Maybe they […]
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Track Premiere: Breandán Fitzpatrick “Sweet Return”

April 19, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Breandán Fitzpatrick is, on ‘Sweet Return’, showing another musical face from his main activities – the Irish musician is one half of the band Omonoko who are mostly known for electronic dance music.  However, over a […]

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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

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Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]

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Not, we should point out, the Badfinger song made famous by Harry Nilsson, but sitting somewhat in that same territory of relationship loss.  Here, though, over a gentle folky setting the mellifluous Chloe Foy is singing […]
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Interview: Cat Clyde on how blues, jazz and country move her

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Singing as a child grounded her and Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline, and Bobbie Gentry inspired her. The term singer-songwriter is used with abandon within the americana and folk genres but there are only a few artists […]
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Like a scene from a Hitchcock movie ‘The Chase‘ sees the protagonists of Run Coyote’s new album take off for a revenge spree with a Private Eye hot on her trail.  It’s taken from their new […]

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