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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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Lucky Overton “Watch Your Back” – you can’t even trust your friends…

January 12, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Lucky Overton’s new single ‘Watch Your Back‘ is taken from the upcoming album ‘College Town‘ which is released on the 3rd of February.  It’s a soulful and powerfully sung piece of mostly acoustic Americana with Lucky […]
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Casey Penn “We Go Together Like A Guitar And A Fiddle” – matched in love

January 12, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Casey Penn takes a Bluegrass slant on love with ‘We Go Together Like A Guitar And A Fiddle‘, where others might suggest a horse and carriage Penn offers the suggestion that the perfect combination is a […]
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Aoife O’Donovan “Drover” – into a wild wild country

January 11, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1
The wonderful Aoife O’Donovan, of whom we cannot stop saying nice things, has a deluxe version of the  ‘Apathy Sessions‘ coming out which has been renamed ‘The Apathy Sessions’ and features, amongst other things, this cover […]
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Just Because…

January 11, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Not an Essentials, well, maybe a little bit essential.  We’d love to stop posting songs like these (sorry Billy), other than as historical curiosities.  Not yet though, not yet.
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Matt Lenny & The Breakdown “In The Garden” – got to get back to the garden

January 11, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Michigan based Matt Lenny released his latest single just before Christmas, and it acts as a taster for the album ‘For the Birds‘ which will be out in Spring this year.  Lenny recorded it with his […]

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The Milk Carton Kids will return to the UK and Ireland for a run of headline dates in January 2027, including London’s Barbican Centre, Bristol Beacon, Manchester’s Albert Hall, Glasgow’s Pavilion Theatre and Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre. […]
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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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