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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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Nicolai Dunger “Love Is A Song” – so sing, sing, sing

June 27, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Nicolai Dunger has hardly been letting the grass grow under his feet – with a good thirty albums to his name the Swedish “folk-rocker” (it’s in quotes, folks, ‘cos he’s that and so much more) is […]

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Joseph Decosimo “Ida Red” – Appalachian makeover

June 25, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Sometimes it can be something as simple as a chance remark that leads a person to make some astonishing new music, and that’s the case for Joseph Decosimo on his new album “Fiery Gizzard“.  It was […]

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Folk Roundup – Gavin Fairhall Lever, Filkins Drift, Trip, Danu, Quinie, C. Daniel Boling & Tom Paxton

June 25, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

This is an epic edition of Folk Roundup, so many great albums, we’re not sure yet who is going to pull themselves to the top of the heap as album of the month. And such variety […]

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Ron Pope “Things Jesus Didn’t Say” – hey, that’s not right

June 24, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

We’ve written about Ron Pope’s most recent album ‘American Man, American Music’ but this new single is not taken from that release.  It stands alone as a testament to Pope’s antipathy to…TikTok.  That surprised you.  Bet […]

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Jeffrey Martin “Edge Of Lost” – on the losing end

June 23, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Have we ever said anything bad about Portland’s Jeffrey Martin?  Let’s check. Looks like a no.  His songs resonate and hit home hard, even with an easy delivery; his albums, then, are of course, essential purchases, […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

February 17, 2026 0

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

February 10, 2026 0

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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Video: Cabane feat. Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Bostegehio “Take Me Home (Part 2)”

March 10, 2020 0

The New York Times describes the new material from Cabane as: “An atmospheric wisp… with glimmers of Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg.”  Perfect description.  This song is taken from ‘Grand Est La Maison’, the new project […]

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Mt. Joy, Bush Hall, London, 25th June 2019

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It was a sweaty night outside and in as London enjoyed raised temperatures and the threat of rain. The ever elegant Bush hall was a good way towards full for Mt. Joy, making a stopover appearance […]

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Nathan Xander : “Over you, over me”

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Nathan Xander is a troubadour in the Texas sense, when he’s in Texas. Or in the California sense when he’s there. Or the Chicago sense, oh, OK. You get it. The man writes like he travels: well […]

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