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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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Folk Tracks Roundup – September 2025

September 11, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

September already, adieu sweet Summer.  That means, though, that it’s also time for another edition of Folk Tracks Roundup, our regular feature where we try to reduce the unused Track list feature nothing but the best […]

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Andrew Weiss and Friends “Put That In Your Pipe (and Smoke It)” – what the man said…

September 10, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Long Island’s Andrew Weiss and Friends have found a way to keep the music flowing – songwriter Andrew Weiss has developed an interesting technique – when an album is about to be released, he starts on […]

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L.C. Franke “Prisoner” – emotional one

September 9, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

L.C. Franke is styled as an orchestral-pop crooner, which might cause a slight raise of the eyebrow – but his latest recording “Southern Bloom” features a series of his songs taken “on a dusty road trip […]

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Rising Appalachia “Lady Liberty” – and thus was a nation forged…

September 8, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s sometimes difficult to square the love of Americana music with what’s reported in the endless news cycle of the latest empty gestures, duplicitous lies, gratuitous fawning, snake oil salesmanship and downright adherence to wrongheaded and […]

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Jonah Kagen “You Again” – like a bad penny?

September 5, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Jonah Kagen’s debut album is put today, it’s called “Sunflowers And Leather” and this song, ‘You Again‘, is the most recent single from it.  Jonah Kagen took a big life swerve when a relationship ended – […]

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