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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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Terre & Maggie Roche “Kin Ya See That Sun” – Newly found recordings

September 9, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
Singer-songwriter Terre Roche of the legendary NYC sibling folk trio, The Roches has announced the release of ‘Kin Ya See That Sun‘, a collection of previously unreleased live recordings and original songs written and performed by […]
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Dream Team Triple Header – Ralph McTell, Altered Images, Bruce Springsteen

September 8, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
Dreaming, as someone once noted, is free – which is just as well since picking up tickets for this three would be sizable hit to the wallet.  But oh holy royal glory, what riches you are […]
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Track Premiere: Daphne Parker Powell “Enough To Kill”

September 8, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
Taken from her upcoming sixth album ‘The Starter Wife’, to be released the 14th of October, ‘Enough to Kill‘ is part of an elegy to the end of a marriage.  The album is, she says “an […]
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The Ramalamas “Moondog” – bark at the moon…

September 7, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
Based in Sydney, Australia, The Ramalamas have a twanging sound that references surf rock on this song from their latest, and fifth, album.  It’s also their first vinyl release.  The album is called ‘Le Cape Noir’ […]
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Eliza Edens “Westlawn Cemetery” – one day all this will be mine

September 7, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
Eliza Edens has a new album, her second, out soon (October 14th to be exact) – it’s called ‘We’ll Become the Flowers‘, which is a line from today’s song.  Gentle finger-picking accompanies a musing on existence […]

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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

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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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Something for the weekend: Billy Bragg “California Stars” (Live October / November 1998)

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Well that’s it for another week and we leave you dear reader with a track from a new collection out today, Billy Bragg’s ‘The Roaring Forty’ which nobody sent us for review sadly (damn you Cooking […]
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Van Morrison “Bring it on home to me” – Listen

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Not that this going to become a habit – although it very possibly could – but following on from yesterday’s Real News about Van Morrison’s upcoming album Roll with the punches (due out this September) it is […]
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Video: VanWyck “Maybe, Maybe Not”

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One can’t help but love the simplistic and austere beauty of blending a song’s melody, nature’s light, and some majestic images, as Amsterdam’s very own VanWyck truly inspires with a second recent single and accompanying video […]

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