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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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Americana UK’s Shades Of Love

February 14, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Aah…Valentines’ day. A sanctioned day for an outpouring of loving sentiment, a day to make any self respecting flower judder at the thought of being cut. Commercialism! And, anyway, there are 364 other days each year […]
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Track Premiere: Humbletown “Drink to the Desert”

February 14, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Humbletown is a folk/bluegrass duo from Sioux Falls South Dakota featuring Morgan Carnes on clawhammer banjo and Dylan Lewis on flatpick guitar and mandolin.  They both sing a bit too, as you’ll hear soon.  In fact […]
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Track Premiere: Bill Scorzari “I-70 East (Acoustic)”

February 13, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Bill Scorzari released his 4th studio album, the co-produced with Neilson Hubbard ‘The Crosswinds of Kansas‘, last year.   It took its title from a line in the song ‘I-70 East‘: “Then, came the crosswinds of Kansas […]
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Yo La Tengo “Sinatra Drive Breakdown” – it’s a long road, thank goodness

February 10, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
This is timely – ‘Sinatra Drive Breakdown‘ is taken from the new Yo La Tengo album ‘This Stupid World‘, which is released today.  ‘Sinatra Drive Breakdown‘  is the opener for the album and it bubbles and […]
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Track Premiere: Joe Rian and the A.M. Drinkers “I’m Gonna Love You”

February 10, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1
Joe Rian has what one might describe as an interesting life.  The Chicago based singer was adopted as an infant and raised in Rock Falls, Illinois.  He moved out of the U.S. Midwest after flunking out […]

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Norwegian duo delivers a nordicana record filled with beautiful songs, expertly performed and arranged. Fayen is a Norwegian duo based in Trondheim, situated in central Norway, on the south shore of the third-largest of Norway’s fjords, Trondheimsfjorden […]
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Poignancy heaped upon poignancy on Taylor’s final recordings Words From Holy Gardens was already a very emotionally wrought record, featuring as it does Chip Taylor’s home recordings of his responses to aging and in particular to […]

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