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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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Eliza Carthy “The Snow It Melts The Soonest” – from new album

August 8, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
There’s no-one like Eliza Carthy, what a singer and musician and what an innovative reshaper of traditional songs.  Is it fair to say the reigning queen of English folk?  Yeah, why not.  Celebrating thirty years as […]
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Robyn Hitchcock “The Shuffle Man” – Jump cuts (and cats)

August 5, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
It would be easy to characterize ‘The Shuffle Man‘ as tuneful and catchy insanity – what can one make in a rational world of  the opening lyrics “I sit out the window / I sit out […]
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Track Premiere: Al Rose “Again The Beginner”

August 5, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
This is the title track from Al Rose’s latest album, the eighth by the singer-songwriter from Chicago.  It’s a musing on a continuing attempt to a be a better person, with an equally continuous faltering and […]
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Bonny Light Horseman “Exile” – worse than getting sent to Coventry….

August 4, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
So, the editor was berating me – “what about the new single from Bonny Light Horseman?  How come it isn’t scheduled?”  To which, quite naturally I replied “Bonny Light Horseman?  The greatest psychedelic-tinged folk-rock band in […]
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Track Premiere: Brittany Collins “The Journey”

August 4, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
‘The Journey‘ tells a story of coming together and then….staying together.  Pretty novel in an Americana world of constant break-ups and lost loves.  The slightly funky roots rocker tells of the merits of two people not […]

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New Yorker Jesse Malin began his performing career in the New York hardcore band Heart Attack, before assuming the role of vocalist of glam punk band D Generation. Between 1994 and 1999 D Generation released three […]
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Sensitive sounds carry poetic lyrics and encourage deeper reflections on meaning. Mildred is a four-piece band from Oakland, CA, with members: Henry Easton Koehler (vocals, guitar), Jack Schrott (vocals, guitar), Matt Palmquist (vocals, bass, woodwinds) or […]
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We’re heading towards the Summer now, May Day falls this week, and the obvious thing would be to offer you, valued reader, a swathe of music that touches on those themes of rebirth and the explosion […]

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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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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: 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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Well that’s it for us this week dear reader. A big week for us next week as we announce our writers’ albums of 2020 on Monday, we will countdown to our Twang Factor Season One winner […]
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Video: Johanna Samuels “Rush Of Wheels”

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A beautifully dreamy country ballad from Johanna Samuels, taken from her forthcoming EP Have A Good One, out on 26th April.  We like this a lot.
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Video Premiere: Stephen Jacques “Symphony of Freaks”

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Check out the new single from alt-rocker Stephen Jacques.  ‘Symphony of Freaks’ is an an absorbing, upbeat song, featuring rolling drums, warm bass  and a rhythmic strum.  Over these sonic layers, twanging lead guitar and flowing […]

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