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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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Judy Collins, Town Hall Concert Revisited, 16th – 18th April 2021

April 28, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
Judy Collins first revisited her 1964 live recorded first New York solo concert, on the same stage some fifty seven years later in February  of this year.  This special weekend was an “encore” performance – another […]
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Katie Jo “Pawn Shop Queen” – Listen

April 28, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
This is the title track from Katie Jo’s new album – and it is glorious.  Some songs are so perfect you can’t help but wonder how they happened.  Luckily in this case we know, the album […]
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Ida Mae “Road To Avalon” – Listen

April 27, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
It’s, if anything, the road back home for Ida Mae, as Ida Mae explained: “We wanted this song and production to be a cinematic, slow pan across a vignette of the towns and cities we’ve travelled […]
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Bandits On The Run “Hurricane” – Listen

April 27, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
Coming from the big choruses division of American Indie-Folk bands, Bandits on the Run also have a great “it was fate” backstory: a young cellist catching the late train home happens upon a busker singing and […]
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The Mountain Goats “Mobile” – Listen

April 26, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
This new song from the Mountain Goats is taken from the upcoming album ‘Dark in Here‘, which is due out 25th June and was recorded at the legendary FAME studios.  ‘Mobile’ features both Spooner Oldham on […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez “Him Who Saved Me”

May 5, 2026 0
A few weeks ago, James Wesley Voight, otherwise known as Chip Taylor, died. He is best known for writing classics such as Wild Thing and Angel of the Morning; however, the songs he wrote for and […]
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Uni Boys “Uni Boys”

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Crow And Gazelle “Belly Of The Beast” – bad things happening

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Phew, having survived the long weekend, but arriving home just a tad late, there is just time to share a new track before hitting the hay.  And it’s the latest single from Texas-based duo Crow and […]

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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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Jesse Malin “Hollywood Forever” – tribute to a friend

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After all the hard times Jesse Malin has been through in recent years it’s more than good to hear new sounds from the man who embodies the spirit of punkish-rock and roll.  The new songs are […]
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Video: Beans on Toast “The Golden Lion”

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Beans on Toast returns with an outstanding new single, ‘The Golden Lion’.  It’s a song that tells of Beans’ love for a particular place and its people, for a glorious British pub in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, […]
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