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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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Jim Ghedi & Toby Hays “Bright Edge Deep” – blissful guitars

March 22, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
It’s Wednesday afternoon and so it’s more than time for a song without words – in this instalment we have ‘Bright Edge Deep‘ which is a pair of guitars, a six and twelve string, making something […]
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Live review: Will Sheff + Julie Odell, Omeara, London – 8th March 2023

March 22, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
A fine dusting of snow can be very pretty – particularly when viewed from a warm building with perhaps a beverage of choice close at hand.  It’s less amusing when standing on a railway station platform […]
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Track Premiere: The Black Denims “Ain’t All Roses”

March 22, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
A second premiere for the day and this time we’re really happy to feature the Glasgow based band The Black Denims.  They are the new project of singer songwriter August Saint-Giles who has gathered a crack […]
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Track Premiere: Randy Steele & High Cold Wind “There’s A Part Of Me”

March 22, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1
Randy Steele is an award winning banjo pickin’ singer/songwriter from Chattanooga, Tennessee – “There’s a Part of Me,” is his new single to be released on March 24th.  It was recorded with his bluegrass band High […]
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Jenny Don’t And The Spurs “Fire On The Ridge” – Heading out…West

March 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
What is the sound that Jenny Don’t and the Spurs make?  There’s an unmistakable Western themes twang to it.  There’s some garage rock attitude and rawness.  And it is exuberant, this is not a band of […]

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The gorgeous Summer Rain is the latest single from folk duo Jo Bartlett and Neil Haydock. There is the perfect confluence of three elements: wistful, yearning music; sensitive, narrative lyrics; and a visual, which is steeped […]
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Essentials: The Top 10 Hurray For The Riff Raff Songs

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first thoughts José González is a Swedish indie-folk singer – with, naturally, the usual background in hardcore punk influenced by Black Flag and choral singing – Against The Dying Of The Light is his fifth album, […]

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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]
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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

April 22, 2026 0
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

April 21, 2026 0
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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Sunday Morning “Four” (Bronson Recordings, 2019)

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Following on from the release of Sicilian Fabrizio Cammarata’s critically acclaimed ‘Lights’, the Italian Americana (is that a coffee?) theme is continued by Sunday Morning, who returned with a new line-up in 2015 after eight years […]
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Track Premiere: Rosina Bullen “Candle”

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Rosina Bullen brings us a slice of folk that drifts into the kind of jazz tinged music that one might associate with Joni Mitchell.  ‘Candle‘ is taken from her forthcoming EP ‘Painting a Picture‘ and was, […]
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Video: Steve Poltz “Ballin’ On A Wednesday!”

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A hymn to having a good time in the middle of the week (something we can all get behind), this is from Nashville man Steve Poltz’s latest album ‘Shine On’, out now.

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