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Siv Jakobsen “Birthday” – You say it’s your birthday….
Siv Jakobsen did not enjoy her 25th birthday. But, making the best of a bad thing she did at least get a sardonic song out of it, so not all a loss even if it was […]
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Courtney Marie Andrews announces new album
Courtney Marie Andrews has announced today the release of her new album ‘Loose Future’ which will be out 7th October via Fat Possum, and by way of a tease for the release there’s a new song […]
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SUSS “Heat Haze” – we’re having a heat wave….
Now, we have to be honest with you, we’re not really sure if Ambient-Americana is a thing, despite the likes of UNCUT trying to persuade us otherwise. Soundscapes of swirling instrumentation, twangy guitar, pedal steel distorted […]
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Did you hear Rhiannon Giddens?
Well, with all that’s been going on just recently it’s just possible that you may have missed the short series ‘Black Roots‘ on BBC Radio4. Particularly as it would have found a natural home on Radio2, […]
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Eugene Tyler Band “60 Days” – And counting
This is unashamedly a pandemic song from modern Bluegrass outfit Eugene Tyler Band, musing in a suitably jaunty way on all the Covid tropes you can think of – watching, or not watching, the news; drinking […]