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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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Track Premiere: Justin Tipton “Don’t Let Me Sleep Alone”

February 27, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Justin Tipton’s music career could be said to have started at the age of three when he picked up a toy guitar and banged out a tune.  A more truly significant moment may have been some […]
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Tim Grimm “The Little In-Between” – this will just take a moment

February 24, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
‘The Little In-Between’ is the title track of Tim Grimms upcoming album release, which will hit the streets on April 14th.  It’s something of a new direction for Grimm – still very much recognisable as folk influenced […]
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Track Premiere: Yarn “Cocaine Bear”

February 23, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
You’ve maybe heard the story – a plane load of cocaine being smuggled ends up separated from its owner and lands on the Tennessee / Georgia border.  Where a bear finds it.  It doesn’t turn out […]
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Graham Nash lines up new album for release

February 23, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1
Can it truly be seven years since the release of ‘This Path Tonight‘, Graham Nash’s last solo studio album?  It would appear so – and whilst the intervening years have been studded with a compilation including […]
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Track Premiere : Eric Silverman “Ride On”

February 23, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
The second album from Eric Silverman, ‘Stay In It,’ can truly claim to be desert rock, as it was recorded in the tiny high desert outpost of Landers, California.  It’s an album that, in 2020, had to […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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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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Abigail Lapell to play extensive UK and European tour in November

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Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell, who is releasing her new album Shadow Child on 8th May 2026 via Outside Music, has announced a run of six UK headline shows as part of a wider UK and European […]
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Track Premiere: Candace Hastings “Horses I Left Behind”

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Candace Hastings is long steeped in songwriting. Her first came when she was in fifth grade; it had just one chord and was written on the three-quarter-size Kay guitar that her mother bought for her the […]

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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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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]

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Video: Kate Hudson “Live Forever”

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Better known as an acclaimed, Oscar-nominated actor, Kate Hudson also possesses an outstanding voice as showcased in recent single ‘Live Forever’.  Based around an engaging, fluent melody, Hudson’s vocal is smooth and warm with a touch […]
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Video: Manuel the Band “Without Me”

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From Long Beach, Southern California, Manuel the Band bring their own unique mashup of Americana meets jam-band meets pop-smarts. Well, this is something different. Ahead of their debut album, ‘Things That Can’t Be Seen‘, Manuel the […]
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Drive By Truckers “Every Single Storied Flameout” – so damn good

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Ok – really quick, this is the second single from the new album ‘Welcome 2 Club XIII‘, and it’s raw and rocking and disdainful of those who find all their disasters are someone else’s fault.  Got […]

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