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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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Hillary Reynolds “Gaslight” – where is truth?

July 3, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

The upcoming album, ‘Changing Seasons’, which is due out August 8th is the debut solo release from Wisconson born and now Los Angeles living singer and songwriter Hillary Reynolds.  It marks a return to songs that […]

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Patty Griffin “Born In A Cage” – where has all the habitat gone?

July 2, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

The second single from Patty Griffin’s latest album ‘Crown Of Roses’  is a double reflection – there’s the song’s clear theme of the loss of diversity in the wild, and then there’s the personal part where […]

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Ruth Hazleton “Letter From A Friend (Fire Song)” – all things have passed

July 1, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Letter From A Friend (Fire Song)‘ is the lead track from Ruth Hazleton’s upcoming album “Heronbones“, which will be released in September 2025.   “Heronbones” draws on Hazleton’s love of traditional song and folkloric themes, using sampling, […]

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Live Review: Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys + Honey and the Bear, Junction 2, Cambridge – 9th June 2025

June 30, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Sam Kelly’s take on folk music relies on a combination of reworked and mostly sped-up traditional songs and his own, often more introspective, self-writes. With the full Lost Boys band he frequently leans into a joyful […]

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Folk Tracks Roundup – June 2025

June 30, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

A generous helping of new folk song recordings this month on the regular roundup from the Tracks we say “hmm…this is more folk than Americana, isn’t it?”  In the end you, dear reader, as ever are […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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